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200 000 000 Drachmai Kalamata
| Issuer | Bank of Greece |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ ΤΑΜΕΙΑΚΟΝ ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΙΩΝ ΕΙΣ ΤΟΝ ΚΟΜΙΣΤΗΝ ΕΚΑΤΟΜΜΥΡΙΑ Η ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ ΥΠΟΧΡΕΟΥΤΑΙ ΝΑ ΑΝΤΑΛΛΑΞΗ ΤΟ ΠΑΡΟΝ ΤΑΜΕΙΑΚΟΝ ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΙΟΝ ΕΝΑΝΤΙ ΤΡΑΠΕΖΟΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΙΩΝ ΕΠΙ ΤΗ ΕΜΦΑΝΙΣΗ ΤΟ ΠΑΡΟΝ ΓΙΝΕΤΑΙ ΥΠΟΧΡΕΩΤΙΚΩΣ ΔΕΚΤΟΝ ΕΙΣ ΤΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΛΛΑΓΑΣ ΚΑΛΑΜΑΙ ΤΗ 5 ΟΚΤΩΒΡΙΟΥ 1944 ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ ΥΠΟΚΑΤΑΣΤΗΜΑ ΚΑΛΑΜΩΝ |
| Reverse description | Printed in brown on plain paper, the reverse is dominated by an overall floral and geometric guilloche underprint pattern covering the entire surface. A central oval vignette contains elaborate scrollwork surrounding the numeral 200, with the bank title ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ across the top and ΕΚΑΤΟΜΜΥΡΙΑ along the bottom; denomination numerals 200 appear in each corner. A circular Bank of Greece branch stamp is impressed at the left centre. |
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By mid-1944 the Axis occupation had driven Greek inflation into one of the most severe hyperinflationary collapses in recorded history. The Bank of Greece was forced to authorize regional emergency issues — this note is one of them, produced locally in Kalamata rather than at a central facility, reflecting the near-total breakdown of any coordinated monetary infrastructure. The Kalamata issue is among the more geographically specific survivors of that period.
Notes of this regional type were typically produced under improvised conditions and circulated only briefly before denomination became meaningless. By November 1944, the 200,000,000 drachmai figure was already obsolete — the currency was redenominated at 50 billion old drachmai to one new drachma.