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1000 Drachmai
| Issuer | Bank of Greece |
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| Year | 1935 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 1000 Αʹ Αʹ 1000 ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ ΔΡΑΧΜΑΙ ΧΙΛΙΑΙ ΠΛΗΡΩΤΕΑΙ ΕΠΙ ΤΉ ΕΜΦΑΝΙΣΕΙ ΑΘΗΝΗΣΙ ΤΉ 1 ΜΑΙΟΥ 1935 Ο ΔΙΕΥΘΥΝΤΗΣ Ο ΓΕΝ. ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΥΣ Ο ΔΙΟΙΚΗΤΗΣ |
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| Protection description | Bust of Poseidon. |
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The 1935 series was issued under the restored Greek monarchy — George II had returned to the throne just months earlier following a rigged plebiscite in November 1935, and the Bank of Greece needed a new high-denomination note to match the changed political order. Engraving was handled through the Banque de France's atelier, whose intaglio standards were among the tightest in Europe at the time.
Sébastien Laurent was a staff designer at the Banque de France rather than a freelance contractor, which means this note's artwork was produced entirely within the Paris establishment's in-house pipeline — an arrangement that gave Greece consistent but distinctly French-inflected plate work across several interwar issues.