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500 Oka
| Issuer | Political Committee of National Liberation (PEEA) |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Value | 500 Oka |
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| Obverse lettering | ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΗ ΕΘΝΙΚΗΣ ΑΠΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΩΣΗΣ ΕΘΝΙΚΟ ΟΜΟΛΟΓΟ ΑΠΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΩΤΙΚΟΥ ΑΓΩΝΑ Ο ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΑΣ ΤΟΥ ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΚΩΝ Ο ΠΡΟΪΣΤΑΜΕΝΟΣ ΛΟΓΙΣΤΙΚΟΥ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΔΡΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΗΣ 5 ΙΟΥΝΙΗ 1944 ΕΚΤΥΠΩΣΗ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΑΣ |
| Reverse description | The reverse is text-heavy, printed in green ink on a lightly patterned background with a wheat-ear border surround. A block of Greek text in the centre details the legislative authority and terms of the bond issue, including penalties for forgery. The denomination 500 appears in a dark panel at the bottom centre, with repeated '1944' and 'ΠΕΑ' markings along the left margin, and a violet official stamp visible at centre. |
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The Political Committee of National Liberation — PEEA — was the resistance government operating from the mountains of free Greece while the Axis-backed collaborationist administration held Athens. This note was printed and circulated entirely within liberated territory, making it one of the few wartime issues produced and used on Greek soil outside enemy control. The denomination is expressed in oka, an Ottoman-era unit of weight that had been abolished as official measure years earlier — its use here was practical, tied to commodity exchange in a subsistence economy where grain and olive oil mattered more than drachmas.
The Free Greece Press operated under conditions of constant threat of discovery and bombardment. Very few notes from this issue survive undamaged.