500 Drachmai

€1.00
IssuerGreece
Year1968
TypeStandard circulation banknote
Value500 Drachmai (500 GRD)
CurrencyThird modern drachma (1954-2001)
CompositionPaper
Size158 × 74 mm
ShapeRectangular
PrinterBanknote and Currency Printing Office (Ίδρυμα Εκτυπώσεως Τραπεζογραμματίων και Αξιών / Idryma Ektiposeos Trapezogrammation kai Axion), Holargos, Greece (1947-date)
No. printed
Designer(s)
Engraver(s)Obverse: L. Orphanos
Reverse: G. Angelopoulos
In circulation to
Reference(s) P#197
Obverse descriptionOlive on multicolor underprint. Eleusinian Relief with Demeter, Triptolemos and Persephone at center, denomination on multicoloured guilloches at right.
Reverse descriptionOlive on multicolor underprint. Ancient plaque from Knossos depicting a wild goat and its kid at bottom left, fruits at bottom center.
Signature(s)
Protection typeWatermark
Protection descriptionEphebus of Antikythera.
Obverse lettering500 ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ ΔΡΑΧΜΑΙ ΠΕΝΤΑΚΟΣΙΑΙ ΠΛΗΡΩΤΕΑΙ ΕΠΙ ΤΗ ΕΜΦΑΝΙΣΕΙ ΕΝ ΑΘΗΝΑΙΣ ΤΗ 1η ΝΟΕΜΒΡΙΟΥ 1968 Ο ΔΙΕΥΘΥΝΤΗΣ Ο ΔΙΟΙΚΗΤΗΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΑ, ΤΡΙΠΤΟΛΕΜΟΣ, ΠΕΡΣΕΦΟΝΗ 500 Λ Ο
(Translation: 500 Bank of Greece Five Hundred Drachmai Payable on appearance In Athens, 1st of November 1968  The manager (signature unknown) The governor (signature of Dimitrios Galanis)  Demeter, Triptolemos, Persephone 500 L O)
Reverse lettering500 ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ 500 ΔΡΑΧΜΑΙ ΠΕΝΤΑΚΟΣΙΑΙ ΑΙΓΑΓΡΟΣ - ΚΝΩΣΟΣ Γ Α 500 ΙΔΡΥΜΑ ΤΡΑΠΕΖΗΣ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ
(Translation: 500 Bank of Greece  500 Five Hundred Drachmai  Goat - Knossos G A 500 [Printing] Works of the Bank of Greece)
Variants
Catalog ID9529612200
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