Catalog
100 Drachmai Corfu
| Issuer | Bank of Greece |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Currency | First modern drachma (1832-1944) |
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| Reverse description | Central guilloche underprint with the large numeral 100 at centre, framed by a Greek meander border. Red overprint text in Greek across the face validates the note for Corfu (Κέρκυρα) circulation, with a date of 18th December 1944. A small circular stamp vignette appears at upper right alongside a handwritten serial number, with additional serial numbers printed in black at right. |
| Reverse lettering | ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ ΔΡΑΧΜΑΙ ΕΚΑΤΟΝ ΕΝ ΚΕΡΚΥΡΑ ΤΗ 18ΗΙ ΔΕΚΕΜΒΡΙΟΥ 1944 |
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The Corfu notes of 1944 were not regular Bank of Greece issues — they were an emergency Allied military currency, printed for use in areas liberated from Axis occupation ahead of the main monetary reconstruction. Corfu was liberated by British forces in October 1943, making it one of the earliest recovered Greek territories, and local currency needs were acute well before Athens was free.
Pick 154 is part of a small regional series distinct from the broader wartime drachmai issues. These circulated in genuinely disrupted conditions during a period when Greek monetary stability had been destroyed by hyperinflation under occupation.