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100 Drachmai
| Issuer | National Bank of Greece |
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| Year | 1928 |
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| Value | 100 Drachmai |
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| Obverse lettering | ΕΘΝΙΚΗ ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ ΔΡΑΧΜΑΙ ΕΚΑΤΟΝ ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ ΠΛΗΡΩΤΕΑΙ ΕΠΙ ΤΗ ΕΜΦΑΝΙΣΕΙ Ο ΤΑΜΙΑΣ Ο ΔΙΟΙΚΗΤΗΣ Ο ΒΑΣ. ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΟΣ |
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| Reverse lettering | ΕΘΝΙΚΗ ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ ΕΚΔΟΣΙΣ ΔΕΚΑΤΗ ΤΡΙΤΗ |
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The 1928 Greek stabilization program, backed by the League of Nations, forced a complete restructuring of the currency — the drachma was pegged at 375 to the pound sterling and new notes were commissioned to signal institutional credibility after years of wartime inflation and the catastrophic population exchange following the 1922 Asia Minor disaster. This note was part of that deliberate rebranding effort.
Bradbury Wilkinson had long experience printing for governments needing to project solvency they didn't yet fully possess. The P#93 issue circulated through a banking system still absorbing over a million refugees, which means heavily worn survivors are far more common than clean ones.