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At left centre, a classical intaglio vignette presents a standing statue of Zeus set against a fine guilloche underprint, with the Greek legend ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΟΝ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ and the denomination ΔΡΑΧΜΑΙ ΔΥΟ occupying the upper right field. The law date Νομος 991 της 27ης Οκτωβρίου 1917 is printed across the centre, flanked below by two manuscript signatures for the Κεντρικός Ταμίας and the Υπουργός των Οικονομικών. The printer's imprint BRADBURY, WILKINSON & Co Ld LONDON is lettered along the lower margin. |
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The reverse is centred on a circular vignette of the Greek Royal Arms — a crowned shield bearing a white cross, supported by two allegorical figures — enclosed within a guilloche border, with the numeral 2 repeated at the left and right flanks as denomination indicators. A rectangular text panel carries the anti-counterfeiting warning inscription in Greek. The entire composition is framed by an ornate guilloche border with rosette corner devices. |
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Greece entered the First World War in deeply fractured circumstances — the "National Schism" between royalists loyal to King Constantine and Venizelists backing the Entente left the country effectively running two rival governments simultaneously. This note was issued under that division, part of an emergency low-denomination series introduced because silver coinage had been hoarded or exported entirely out of circulation by 1917.
Bradbury Wilkinson handled the printing in London, an arrangement only possible because the Venizelist faction had aligned Greece with the Allies by the time production was commissioned. The small physical format reflects a deliberate policy of issuing paper substitutes at coin denominations — a stopgap the Greek treasury never fully intended to make permanent.