500 Drachmai

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IssuerGreece
Year1950-1953
TypeStandard circulation banknote
Value500 Drachmai (500 δρᾰχμαί)
CurrencySecond modern drachma (1944-1953)
CompositionPaper
Size112 × 56 mm
ShapeRectangular
PrinterBanknote and Currency Printing Office (Ίδρυμα Εκτυπώσεως Τραπεζογραμματίων και Αξιών / Idryma Ektiposeos Trapezogrammation kai Axion), Holargos, Greece (1947-date)
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Reference(s) P#325
Obverse descriptionByzantine coin with Justinian at left, decorative element with flowers and birds at centre, denomination at right.
Reverse descriptionParaportiani Church in Mykonos at centre, with denomination at sides.
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Protection typeWatermark
Protection descriptionText `ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΟΝ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ` (Kingdom of Greece).
Obverse letteringΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΟΝ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ 500 ΔΡΑΧΜΑΙ ΠΕΝΤΑΚΟΣΙΑΙ Πληρωτέαι ἐπὶ τῇ ἐμφανίσει ΕΝ ΑΘΗΝΑΙΣ Τῌ 10η ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ 1950 Ο ΥΠΟΥΡΓΟΣ ΤΩΝ ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΚΩΝ
(Translation: Kingdom of Greece  500 Five hundred drachmai  Paid on appearance In Athens, 10th July 1950 Minister for Finance (signature of Giorgos Kartalis))
Reverse letteringΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΟΝ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ 500 ΔΡΑΧΜΑΙ ΠΕΝΤΑΚΟΣΙΑΙ ΠΑΡΑΠΟΡΤΙΑΝΗ ΜΥΚΟΝΟΥ ΕΚΔΟΣΙΣ ΠΡΩΤΗ ΙΔΡΥΜΑ ΤΡΑΠΕΖΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ
(Translation: Kingdom of Greece 500 Five hundred drachmai  Paraportiani [Church], Mykonos First Issue [Printing] Works of the Bank of Greece)
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Catalog ID9946145880
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