Catalog
1000 Drachmai
| Issuer | National Bank of Greece |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | First modern drachma (1832-1944) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of Georgios Stavros, founder of the National Bank of Greece, flanked by classical architectural columns at left and right; denomination rendered in large numerals within the lateral panels. |
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| Variants | P#72a - issued note P#72r - remainder without serial # |
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The National Bank of Greece turned to Bradbury Wilkinson during a period of acute monetary stress — Greece had just emerged from the Greco-Turkish War and the catastrophic population exchange that followed, absorbing over a million refugees from Anatolia. The fiscal strain was enormous, and high-denomination notes were a practical necessity rather than a policy choice.
This issue belongs to a series that was later overstamped and revalidated as Greek monetary administration scrambled to manage inflation and successive currency reforms through the mid-1920s. Unoverprinted examples in unaltered original state are the ones worth careful attention.