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| 裏面の説明 | The right half of the bisected 500 Drachmai note (P-56), carrying the intaglio central vignette of a seated allegorical female figure in a classical landscape with ancient Greek ruins in the background, enclosed within a large oval guilloche frame. The partial French inscription 'NATIONALE DE GRECE' arcs along the upper border of the oval, with '...ΕΒΔΟΜΗ' (Seventh) visible at the lower arc. A bold '500' numeral in guilloche work occupies the right portion of the design, surrounded by multicolour lathe-work underprint in green, purple, and orange. |
| 裏面の銘文 | NATIONALE DE GRECE ΕΒΔΟΜΗ 500 AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK |
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Greece faced a severe fiscal crisis in 1922 — a war with Turkey draining the treasury while the drachma collapsed. The government's solution was blunt: existing 500 Drachmai notes were recalled, physically bisected, and each half reissued as a 250 Drachmai note, effectively doubling the circulating supply without printing a single new sheet. One half was retained by the state as a forced loan.
The bisect was given official stamps to validate it as legal tender. ABNCO's original printing was never intended for this treatment, which makes surviving halves with clean, complete cuts and legible stamps considerably harder to find than the survival rate might suggest.