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100 Drachmai Corfu
| Issuer | Bank of Greece |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Value | 100 Drachmai |
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| Obverse description | Oval cameo vignette at left with a classical bust of Homer in profile, surrounded by an ornate border with Greek meander guilloche pattern on all sides. Denomination numeral 100 appears in each corner. The note bears bilingual inscriptions in Italian and Greek identifying it as legal tender for the Ionian Islands, with the text DRACME / ΔΡΑΧΜΑΙ flanking the large central numeral 100. |
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| Obverse lettering | BIGLIETTO A CORSO LEGALE PER LE ISOLE JONIE ΧΑΡΤΟΝΟΜΙΣΜΑ ΕΧΟΝ ΝΟΜΙΜΟΝ ΚΥΚΛΟΦΟΡΙΑΝ ΕΝ ΤΑΙΣ ΙΟΝΙΟΙΣ ΝΗΣΟΙΣ DRACME 100 ΔΡΑΧΜΑΙ IL TESORIERE |
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The Corfu notes of 1944 were not regular Bank of Greece issues — they were an emergency Allied military currency, printed for use in areas liberated from Axis occupation ahead of the main monetary reconstruction. Corfu was liberated by British forces in October 1943, making it one of the earliest recovered Greek territories, and local currency needs were acute well before Athens was free.
Pick 154 is part of a small regional series distinct from the broader wartime drachmai issues. These circulated in genuinely disrupted conditions during a period when Greek monetary stability had been destroyed by hyperinflation under occupation.