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100 Drachmai unissued
| Issuer | National Bank of Greece |
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| Year | 1927 |
| Type | Pattern or trial banknote |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Georgios Stavros, founder of the National Bank of Greece, at left; large denomination numeral at centre; ancient coin vignette at right. Intricate guilloche underprint frames the design throughout. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of an ancient coin bearing the head of Apollo, inscribed ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝ below, set within an elaborate guilloche border. The denomination numeral '100' appears in large intaglio figures at left and right, with the issuer's title ΕΘΝΙΚΗ ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ across the top and the series inscription ΕΚΔΟΣΙΣ ΔΕΚΑΤΗ ΤΕΤΑΡΤΗ below centre. The printer's imprint AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY appears at the bottom margin. |
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The American Bank Note Company produced this series for Greece in 1927, but the notes were never released into circulation. Greece had re-entered the gold exchange standard that same year under pressure from the League of Nations Financial Committee, which oversaw a sweeping stabilization program tied to the establishment of the Bank of Greece — an institution specifically mandated to replace the National Bank of Greece as the sole issuer of currency. The timing made these notes obsolete before they ever left the vaults.
Unissued ABNC stock from this period tends to survive in quantity, but the political circumstances here are specific: the issuing authority itself was being dismantled as a note-issuing body.