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5000 Drachmai pink, large type
| Issuer | Bank of Greece |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Value | 5000 Drachmai (5000 δρᾰχμαί) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a seated woman draped in classical robes, holding an infant and accompanied by a young child, set within an oval frame against a pink-toned guilloche underprint. The bank title ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ is printed in bold lettering across the upper right, with the denomination ΔΡΑΧΜΑΙ ΠΕΝΤΕ ΧΙΛΙΑΔΕΣ in large letterpress text to the left. Serial number and two manuscript signatures of bank officials appear in the lower portion, with ornate border decoration framing the entire face. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ ΔΡΑΧΜΑΙ ΠΕΝΤΕ ΧΙΛΙΑΔΕΣ 5,000 Πληρώται επί τη εμφανίσει ΕΝ ΑΘΗΝΑΙΣ Ο ΔΙΕΥΘΥΝΤΗΣ Ο ΔΙΟΙΚΗΤΗΣ |
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This note belongs to the immediate postwar reissue of the wartime 5000 Drachmai series, printed as Greece attempted to restore monetary order following the catastrophic Axis occupation inflation — a period during which the drachma had effectively ceased to function as a store of value. The "large type" designation distinguishes this from the visually similar P#172, the difference being a typographic modification to the denomination text rather than any change in the underlying plate design.
The broader 1944–1946 stabilization effort ultimately failed. A new currency reform in November 1944 had already replaced these notes at a rate of 50 billion old drachmai to one new drachma, making surviving examples of this series more a record of hyperinflationary collapse than functional tender.