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5 Drachmai
| Issuer | Greek State (Ελληνική Πολιτεία) |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Printer | Aspioti-ELKA (Ασπιώτη-ΕΛΚΑ), Athens, Greece (1940-1997) |
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| Obverse lettering | ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΠΟΛΙΤΕΙΑ 5 ΔΡΑΧΜΑΙ ΠΕΝΤΕ ΠΛΗΡΩΤΕΑ ΕΠΙ ΤΗ. ΕΜΦΑΝΙΣΕΙ ΕΝ ΑΘΗΝΑΙΣ ΤΗ. 18 ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ 1941 Ο ΥΠΟΥΡΓΟΣ ΤΩΝ ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΚΩΝ 5 5 ‟ΑΣΠΙΩΤΗ - ΕΛΚΑ„ |
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| Reverse lettering | ΝΟΜΟΘΕΤΙΚΟΝ ΔΙΑΤΑΓΜΑ ΥΠ` ΑΡΙΘ 193 ΤΗΣ 17ΗΣ ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ 1941 5 5 Η ΠΑΡΑΠΟΙΗΣΙΣ Η ΠΛΑΣΤΟΓΡΑΦΗΣΙΣ ΚΑΙ Η ΕΝ ΓΝΩΣΕΙ ΤΗΣ ΠΛΑΣΤΟΤΗΤΟΣ ΚΥΚΛΟΦΟΡΙΑ ΤΙΜΩΡΟΥΝΤΑΙ ΚΑΤΑ ΤΟΝ ΝΟΜΟΝ |
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The "Ελληνική Πολιτεία" issuer name dates this note precisely: it was the administrative designation adopted under the Axis occupation government installed after the fall of Athens in April 1941. The Greek State, as distinct from the Kingdom, issued low-denomination notes like this one partly because the occupation authorities had stripped the Bank of Greece of meaningful monetary control, and small-change paper filled a practical gap left by hoarded and disappeared coinage.
Aspioti-ELKA printed this in Athens under occupation conditions — not an insignificant detail, given the material shortages and disruptions of that period.