5000 Drachmes

€1.00
IssuerGreece
Year1984
TypeStandard circulation banknote
Value5000 Drachmai (5000 GRD)
CurrencyThird modern drachma (1954-2001)
CompositionPaper
Size163 × 81 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)Pericles Sotiriou
Engraver(s)Obverse: Georgios Angelopoulos
Reverse: Eleonora Perraki-Pipinis
In circulation to1 March 2012
Reference(s) P#203
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 descriptionPolyzalos of Delphi
Obverse lettering5000 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 lettering5000 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)
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Catalog ID7286441360
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