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5000 Drachmai brown
| Issuer | Bank of Greece |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | A central oval vignette presents an allegorical mother figure draped in a veil, holding an infant and accompanied by a young child to her left, rendered in intaglio in brown tones. The denomination ΔΡΑΧΜΑΙ ΠΕΝΤΕ ΧΙΛΙΑΔΕΣ is inscribed in bold letterpress to the left, with the date and place of issue below. The heading ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ appears across the top, flanked by the numeral 5,000 at both lower corners. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ ΔΡΑΧΜΑΙ ΠΕΝΤΕ ΧΙΛΙΑΔΕΣ Πληρωθεί επί τη εμφανίσει ΕΝ ΑΘΗΝΑΙΣ ΤΗ 9 ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ 1947 ΟΙ ΔΙΕΥΘΥΝΤΑΙ 5.000 |
| Reverse description | The reverse bears a classical mythological vignette drawn from ancient Greek epic tradition, in which the Nereid Thetis rides upon a hippocampus to deliver the divine armour forged by Hephaistos to her son Achilles at Troy. The composition is executed in the intaglio style characteristic of mid-twentieth-century Greek banknote engraving, with fine guilloche borders framing the scene. The denomination and issuer inscriptions are repeated in Greek lettering. |
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