200 Drachmes

€1.00
IssuerGreece
Year1996
TypeStandard circulation banknote
Value200 Drachmai (200 GRD)
CurrencyThird modern drachma (1954-2001)
CompositionPaper
Size129 × 65 mm
ShapeRectangular
PrinterBanknote and Currency Printing Office (Ίδρυμα Εκτυπώσεως Τραπεζογραμματίων και Αξιών / Idryma Ektiposeos Trapezogrammation kai Axion), Holargos, Greece (1947-date)
No. printed
Designer(s)Obverse: Pericles Sotiriou
Reverse: Nikos Nikolaou
Engraver(s)
In circulation to1 March 2012
Reference(s) P#204
Obverse descriptionOrange on multicolour underprint. Rigas Velestinlis-Feraios (born Antonios Rigas Velestinlis); people playing and singing; the quote `The one who thinks freely, thinks well.`
Reverse descriptionOrange on multicolour underprint. ``The Secret School``, an oil painting by Nikolaos Gyzis.
Signature(s)
Protection typeWatermark
Protection descriptionHead of King Philip II of Macedonia
Obverse letteringΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ ΔΡΑΧΜΕΣ ΔΙΑΚΟΣΙΕΣ ΠΛΗΡΩΤΕΕΣ ΜΕ ΤΗΝ ΕΜΦΑΝΙΣΗ ΑΘΗΝΑ 2 ΣΕΠΤΕΜΒΙΟΥ 1996 200 Ο ΔΙΟΙΚΗΤΗΣ Ο ΔΙΕΥΘΥΝΤΗΣ ΟΠΟΙΟΣ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΑ ΣΥΛΛΟΓΑΤΑΙ ΚΑΛΑ ΡΗΓΑΣ ΒΕΛΕΣΤΙΝΛΗΣ-ΦΕΡΑΙΟΣ 1821 200 200
(Translation: Bank of Greece Two hundred drachmes Payable on demand Athens, 2 September 1996 200 Governor (signature of Lukas Papadimos) Manager (signature of Konstantinos Argyropoulos) `The one who thinks freely, thinks well` Rigas Velestinlis-Feraios 1821 200 200)
Reverse lettering200 ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ 200 200 ΔΡΑΧΜΕΣ ΔΙΑΚΟΣΙΕΣ το Κρυφό Σχολειό
(Translation: 200 Bank of Greece 200 200 Two hundred drachmes `the Secret School`)
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Catalog ID6683146960
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