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50 Drachmai Italian occupation
| Issuer | Cassa Mediterranea di Credito per la Grecia |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Value | 50 Drachmai (50 δρᾰχμαί) |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 |
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| Protection description | Cell shape pattern throughout note. |
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The Cassa Mediterranea di Credito per la Grecia was a purpose-built occupation institution, established by Italy in 1941 specifically to extract economic value from occupied Greece through a parallel currency system. Notes like this one were exchanged at a rate heavily disadvantageous to the Greek population, effectively functioning as a mechanism for requisitioning goods and labor without direct payment. The same institutional model had already been deployed in Libya and East Africa.
Greece's occupation-era hyperinflation — among the worst of the war — was partly fueled by exactly this kind of parallel issuance. By late 1944, the drachma had collapsed to a point requiring a complete redenomination.