5000 Drachmes

€206,931.00
IssuerGreece
Year1997
TypeStandard circulation banknotes
Value5000 Drachmai (5000 GRD)
CurrencyThird modern drachma (1954-2001)
CompositionPaper
Size147 × 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)Obverse: Nikos Nikolaou
Reverse: Pericles Sotiriou
Engraver(s)Obverse: G. Angelopoulos
Reverse: E. Perraki
In circulation to1 March 2012
Reference(s) P#205
Obverse descriptionDark blue on multicolour underprint. Portrait of Theodoros Kolokotronis (hero of freedom) at left, Church of Agioi Apostoloi in Kalamata at lower-right.
Reverse descriptionDark blue on multicolour underprint. View of a bridge leading to the town of Karytaina in the distance.
Signature(s)
Protection typeWatermark
Protection descriptionHead of Philip II of Macedon and a palmette.
Obverse lettering5000 ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ 5000 ΔΡΑΧΜΕΣ ΠΕΝΤΕ ΧΙΛΙΑΔΕΣ ΠΛΗΡΩΤΕΕΣ ΜΕ ΤΗΝ ΕΜΦΑΝΙΣΗ ΑΘΗΝΑ 1 ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ 1997 Ο ΔΙΕΥΘΥΝΤΗΣ Ο ΔΙΟΙΚΗΤΗΣ Θ. ΚΟΛΟΚΟΤΡΩΝΗΣ ΑΓΙΟΙ ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΟΙ ΚΑΛΑΜΑΤΑΣ 5000
(Translation: 5000 Bank of Greece 5000  Five Thousand Drachmes Paid on appearance Athens, 1 June 1997 MANAGER (signature of Vasiladiotis) GOVERNOR (signature of Lukas Papadimos)  T. Kolokotronis Agioi Apostoloi (Holy Apostolate) church of Kalamata 5000)
Reverse lettering5000 ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ 5000 ΚΑΡΥΤΑΙΝΑ 5000 ΔΡΑΧΜΕΣ ΠΕΝΤΕ ΧΙΛΙΑΔΕΣ ΙΔΡΥΜΑ ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑΣ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ
(Translation: 5000 Bank of Greece 5000  Karytaina 5000 Five Thousand Drachmes [Printing] Works of the Bank of Greece)
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Catalog ID6181310270
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