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5 Oka
| Issuer | Political Committee of National Liberation (PEEA) |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Currency | Oka (1944) |
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| Obverse lettering | ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΗ ΕΘΝΙΚΗΣ ΑΠΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΩΣΗΣ Εθνικό Ομόλογο Απελευθερωτικού Αγώνα ΕΚΤΥΠΩΣΗ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΑΣ |
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| Reverse lettering | ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΗ ΕΘΝΙΚΗΣ ΑΠΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΩΣΗΣ ΕΘΝΙΚΟ ΟΜΟΛΟΓΟ ΑΠΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΩΤΙΚΟΥ ΑΓΩΝΑ ΠΛΟΣ ΕΝΟΣ ΟΜΟΛΟΓΟΥ ΣΤΟ ΚΟΜΙΤΙ ΑΞΙΑΣ ΠΕΝΤΕ [5] ΟΚ.ΣΤΑΡΙΒ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΔΡΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΗΣ 5 ΙΟΥΝΗ 1944 |
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PEEA — the Political Committee of National Liberation — functioned as a resistance government operating from the mountains of occupied Greece, and this note is one of the very few examples of a fully clandestine wartime administration issuing its own currency on its own soil. Printed somewhere within "Free Greece," the Axis-unoccupied highland interior, the exact press location has never been definitively established in the literature.
The oka, an Ottoman-era unit of weight repurposed here as a denomination, speaks to how improvised the entire monetary project was. No central bank, no established printing infrastructure — just a committee asserting financial authority in a war zone.