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100 Oka
| Issuer | Politiki Epitropi Ethnikis Apeleftherosis (PEEA - Political Committee of National Liberation) |
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| Year | 1944 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette within an oval frame shows a standing soldier at centre, a burning house at left, and farmers working the fields at right, all rendered in dark blue-green intaglio. The denomination numeral '100' appears in large figures to the left and right of the central vignette. The border is composed of a repetitive guilloche underprint pattern with foliate ornaments, and the lower margin carries the inscription ΕΚΤΥΠΩΣΗ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΑΣ (Printed in Free Greece). |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in green and structured as a bond certificate, with the central text block presenting the terms of the national liberation loan in Greek script, set within a border composed of repeated 'ΠΕΑ 1944' stamp-like cartouches arranged in rows. The denomination '100' appears in a dark rectangular panel at the bottom centre, and a serial number is present at upper right. Wheat-ear ornaments flank the lower portion of the design. |
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PEEA was the resistance government formed in the mountains of occupied Greece in March 1944, a direct challenge to both the Axis-backed Athens administration and the Greek government-in-exile in Cairo. These notes were issued to pay guerrilla fighters and civil administrators operating in liberated zones — the oka being a pre-metric unit of weight repurposed here as a denomination, which tells you something about how improvised the entire monetary apparatus was.
Printed in conditions of active occupation, paper quality and impression consistency vary significantly across surviving examples. The series was rendered obsolete within months by the Liberation and the subsequent currency reforms of late 1944.