5000 Drachmes

Issuer Greece
Year 1984
Type Standard circulation banknote
Value 5000 Drachmai (5000 GRD)
Currency Third modern drachma (1954-2001)
Composition Paper
Size 163 × 81 mm
Shape Rectangular
Printer Banknote and Currency Printing Office (Ίδρυμα Εκτυπώσεως Τραπεζογραμματίων και Αξιών / Idryma Ektiposeos Trapezogrammation kai Axion), Holargos, Greece (1947-date)
Designer(s) Pericles Sotiriou
Engraver(s) Obverse: Georgios Angelopoulos
Reverse: Eleonora Perraki-Pipinis
In circulation to 1 March 2012
Reference(s) P#203
Obverse description Dark blue on multicolour underprint. Portrait of Theodoros Kolokotronis (hero of freedom) at left, Church of Agioi Apostoloi in Kalamata at lower-right.
Obverse lettering 5000 ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ 5000 ΔΡΑΧΜΕΣ ΠΕΝΤΕ ΧΙΛΙΑΔΕΣ ΠΛΗΡΩΤΕΕΣ ΜΕ ΤΗΝ ΕΜΦΑΝΙΣΗ ΑΘΗΝΑ 23 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ 1984 Ο ΔΙΕΥΘΥΝΤΗΣ Ο ΔΙΟΙΚΗΤΗΣ Θ. ΚΟΛΟΚΟΤΡΩΝΗΣ ΑΓΙΟΙ ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΟΙ ΚΑΛΑΜΑΤΑΣ 5000
(Translation: Bank of Greece, Five Thousand Drachmes Paid on appearance, Athens, 23 March 1984 The manager (signature unknown, the governor (signature of Lukas Papadimos) Theodoros Kolokotronis, Agioi Apostoloi (Holy Apostolate) church, Kalamata, 5000)
Reverse description Dark blue on multicolour underprint. View of a bridge leading to the town of Karytaina in the distance.
Reverse lettering 5000 ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ 5000 ΚΑΡΥΤΑΙΝΑ 5000 ΔΡΑΧΜΕΣ ΠΕΝΤΕ ΧΙΛΙΑΔΕΣ ΙΔΡΥΜΑ ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑΣ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ
(Translation: Bank of Greece, Karytaina, five thousand drachmes, printing works of the Bank of Greece)
Signature(s)
Protection type Watermark
Protection description Polyzalos of Delphi
Variants
Numisquare ID 7286441360
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