50 Drachmai

Features

Issuer	Greece
Issuing bank	Bank of Greece (Τράπεζα της Ελλάδος)
Period	Third Hellenic Republic (1974-date)
Type	Standard circulation banknotes
Year	1978
Value	50 Drachmai (50 GRD)
Currency	Third modern drachma (1954-2001)
Composition	Paper
Size	144 × 64 mm
Shape	Rectangular
Issued	16 July 1980
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 203732
References	P# 199 Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).

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Series: Bank of Greece: issue of 1978-1997

Obverse

Blue on multicolour underprint.
Head of Poseidon, the Ancient Greek god of the sea and storms at left; trident and design of an ancient frieze at bottom-right.

Script: Greek

Lettering:
ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ 50
ΔΡΑΧΜΑΙ ΠΕΝΤΗΚΟΝΤΑ
ΠΛΗΡΩΤΕΑΙ ΕΠΙ ΤΗ ΕΜΦΑΝΙΣΕΙ

ΕΝ ΑΘΗΝΑΙΣ Τῌ 8η ΔΕΚΕΜΒΡΙΟΥ 1978
Ο ΔΙΕΥΘΥΝΤΗΣ
Ο ΔΙΟΙΚΗΤΗΣ

Λ Ο
ΠΟΣΕΙΔΩΝ

Translation:
Bank of Greece 50
Fifty drachmai
Paid on appearance

In Athens, 8th of December 1978
The manager (signature of N. Christofilis)
The governor (signature of Xenophon Zolotas)

L O
Poseidon

Engraver: Lambros Orfanos

Designer: Yannis Stinis

Reverse

Blue on multicolour underprint.
Laskarina Bouboulina, a hero of the war of independence of 1821, ordering her cannons to fire at the fortress of Palamidi.

Script: Greek

Lettering:
50 ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ 50

50 ΔΡΑΧΜΑΙ ΠΕΝΤΗΚΟΝΤΑ
ΙΔΡΥΜΑ ΤΡΑΠΕΖΗΣ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ

Translation:
50 Bank of Greece 50

50 Fifty Drachmai
[Printing] Works of the Bank of Greece

Engraver: Vassilis Sabatakos

Designer: Yannis Stinis

Watermark

Head of the Charioteer of Delphi.

Printer

Banknote and Currency Printing Office (Ίδρυμα Εκτυπώσεως Τραπεζογραμματίων και Αξιών / Idryma Ektiposeos Trapezogrammation kai Axion), Greece (1947-date)

Comments

There are 2 types:

199a1 with watermark 27mm

199a2 with watermark 25mm

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Date	G	VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC	References		Frequency
Undetermined
1978-Dec-08	$ 0.81	$ 0.81	$ 0.93	$ 0.99	$ 1.70	$ 2.20	$ 3.50	P# 199a Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).	Issued note	93%
1978-Dec-08								P# 199r Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).	Replacement, prefix 00Α	0.9%
1978-Dec-08								P# 199s Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).	Specimen, red overprint	0.3%

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