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1000 Drachmai punch holes
| Issuer | National Bank of Greece |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Value | 1000 Drachmai |
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| Obverse lettering | ΕΘΝΙΚΗ ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ ΔΡΑΧΜΑΙ ΧΙΛΙΑΙ 1000 |
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| Reverse lettering | ΕΘΝΙΚΗ ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ ΕΚΔΟΣΙΣ ΠΕΜΠΤΗ 1000 |
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Greece was occupied by Axis forces from April 1941, and the occupying authorities immediately sought to control the money supply. Notes already in circulation — including this 1000 Drachmai — were invalidated through punch cancellation rather than physical withdrawal, a practical measure given the disruption to normal banking infrastructure.
The ABNC printing origin matters here: these notes had been produced in New York before the occupation, part of a supply arrangement that became impossible to continue once Greece fell. Punch-cancelled survivors are common enough; uncancelled circulated examples from the occupation period are considerably harder to place with confidence.