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100 Drachmai unissued
| Issuer | Bank of Greece |
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| Year | 1939 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | At left centre, a vignette of two women in traditional Greek folk costume, one carrying a water jug and the other a sheaf of wheat, rendered in intaglio against a fine guilloche underprint. The denomination ΕΚΑΤΟΝ in bold letterpress dominates the upper centre, flanked by serial number and prefix panels at the corners. A blank oval watermark panel occupies the right side of the note, with the bank title ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ running along the top margin and two facsimile signature lines positioned at lower centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ 100 Βʹ Βʹ 971637 Ν-071 ΔΡΑΧΜΑΙ ΕΚΑΤΟΝ ΠΛΗΡΩΤΕΑΙ ΕΠΙ ΤΗ. ΕΜΦΑΝΙΣΕΙ ΑΘΗΝΗΣΙ ΤΗ. 1η. ΙΑΝΟΥΑΡΙΟΥ 1939 100 Ο ΔΙΟΙΚΗΤΗΣ Ο ΔΙΕΥΘΥΝΤΗΣ Ν-071 971637 100 100 |
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Pick 108 was printed by Waterlow & Sons in 1939 but never released into circulation — the German occupation beginning in April 1941 overtook the Bank of Greece's currency planning entirely, and the wartime monetary collapse that followed made orderly note issuance a secondary concern at best. Unissued remainder stocks of this type survived largely intact, which is why the note exists in collections at all.
Waterlow's relationship with the Bank of Greece stretched across several interwar issues, and the quality of the intaglio work on this series is characteristically high. The watermark security provision, modest by later standards, was typical of Waterlow's Greek contracts of the period.