5 Drachmai Half of 10 Drachmai

The 5 Drachmai issued by the National Bank of Greece as a bisected half of the 10 Drachmai note is a genuine rarity in Greek paper money — not a printing variant but a sanctioned emergency measure, where 10 Drachmai notes were cut in half and each half officially circulated as 5 Drachmai. This practice, more common in colonial and wartime economies, was a direct response to the chronic small-denomination coin shortage that plagued Greece through the late nineteenth century.

Bisect authentication hinges entirely on the cut edge aligning with a documented counterpart. Mismatched halves do exist in collections.