Catalog
100 Drachmai
| Issuer | National Bank of Greece |
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| Year | 1867-1869 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Vignette at upper left with a portrait of Georgios Stavros; upper centre presents an allegorical female figure reclining beside a shield with sailing vessels in the background. The arms of Greece appear at lower right. Uniface printing with no design on the reverse. |
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| Reverse description | Uniface note; the reverse is blank save for the show-through of the obverse printing, with the large numeral denomination "100" visible in heavy guilloche-style figures at the lower centre, and a single line of Greek text legible across the mid-field as bleed-through from the face. |
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The National Bank of Greece turned to the American Bank Note Company for this issue at a time when no European security printer could match ABNC's intaglio work for quality and counterfeit resistance. Greece was a young state with a fragile banking reputation, and the choice of a New York firm was partly practical, partly a signal of institutional seriousness to foreign creditors.
The 1867–1869 date range reflects successive issue dates rather than a design revision — the plates remained unchanged across the span. High-denomination notes from this period survive in very small numbers; most that did circulate were worn to illegibility within a decade and never formally retired in any documented redemption campaign.