Catalog
100 Drachmai
| Issuer | National Bank of Greece |
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| Year | 1910-1917 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of Georgios Stavros, founder of the National Bank of Greece, at left, flanked by elaborate guilloche underprint with the denomination at centre and the Greek coat of arms at right. |
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| Reverse description | Central intaglio vignette of the classical statue of Eirene holding the infant Plutos, set within an arched frame with the Greek inscription ΕΙΡΗΝΗ ΦΕΡΟΥΣΑ ΤΟΝ ΠΛΟΥΤΟΝ on the plinth; bold numeral "100" denomination panels in dark green guilloche with "FRANCS" inscribed above and below appear at left and right; the lower margin carries the bilingual bank title "BANQUE NATIONALE DE GRECE" and Greek legend "ΕΚΔΟΣΙΣ ΕΝΝΑΤΗ", with the printer's imprint "AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK" at the foot. |
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The American Bank Note Company held an extended relationship with Greece in this period, producing multiple denominations as the country's finances lurched through the Balkan Wars of 1912–13 and the subsequent National Schism — the bitter constitutional rupture between King Constantine I and Prime Minister Venizelos that split the country and its institutions, including the National Bank, into royalist and Venizelist factions. Notes issued across this date range existed in genuinely different political climates despite carrying the same design.
The seven-year span of this series is not an oversight — successive governments simply reissued from existing stock or reprinted against the same plates rather than commissioning new designs during wartime austerity.