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Black intaglio on red, teal, and yellow multicolour underprint. A vignette of the Nymph Deidamia appears at left, with the denomination value and authorising signatures positioned at centre. The face bears the issuing authority title, serial number, date of issue, and the written denomination in Greek script. |
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Black on olive green and yellow-green underprint. A central vignette presents the ruins of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, rendered in a classical engraved style. The denomination numeral flanks both sides of the design, with the issuing bank title and series designation inscribed in Greek script. |
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This note belongs to the extreme inflationary sequence Greece endured under Axis occupation, when the occupying powers — Germany, Italy, and Bulgaria — requisitioned Greek resources and forced the Bank of Greece to cover the resulting deficits by printing. The 1943 issues escalated rapidly in face value, and 25,000 drachmai, a sum that would have been unthinkable before the war, was already insufficient for basic transactions within months of issue.
Printed domestically under occupation conditions, the quality of production reflects the material constraints of the period. Greece's wartime hyperinflation ultimately required a currency reform in November 1944, at a conversion rate of 50 billion old drachmai to one new drachma.