Catalog
1000 Grosia
| Issuer | Provisional Administration of Greece |
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| Year | 1822 |
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| Currency | Grosi (1822-1828) |
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| Obverse description | Uniface note printed in black on white paper, with the denomination and Greek-language text arranged in horizontal registers across the centre of the note. An embossed circular seal of the Provisional Administration of Greece appears at upper-left, while an oval intaglio vignette of the seal with a standing allegorical figure is placed at lower-right. Manuscript signatures and handwritten notations are present, consistent with the hand-issued nature of this early Greek emergency currency. |
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| Reverse description | Blank; note is uniface with no printed design on the reverse. |
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The Provisional Administration of Greece issued this note in 1822, during the active phase of the War of Independence against Ottoman rule. Greece had no functioning central bank — the provisional government was issuing paper obligations largely on the strength of anticipated foreign loans and the goodwill of a population fighting a revolution. The grosia (or grossia) denomination was inherited from Ottoman monetary convention, used simply because it was what the public understood.
Pick 5 is among the earliest documented paper money attributable to any Greek governing authority. Survival rates are predictably low given the conditions under which these circulated.