5000 Drachmai

Features

Issuer	Greece
Issuing bank	Bank of Greece (Τράπεζα της Ελλάδος)
King	Paul (1947-1964)
Type	Standard circulation banknotes
Year	1950
Value	5000 Drachmai (5000 δρᾰχμαί)
Currency	Second modern drachma (1944-1953)
Composition	Paper
Size	150 × 80 mm
Shape	Rectangular
Technique	Intaglio
Issued	1 June 1951
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 213799
References	P# 184 Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).

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Obverse

Brown on multicolour underprint. Red serial numbers at top left and right.
Portrait of Dionysios Solomos at left, value in word form and signatures at centre, circular window for watermark at right.

Script: Greek

Lettering:
5.000 ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ 5.000
αα-227850
Δʹ
ΔΡΑΧΜΑΙ ΠΕΝΤΕ ΧΙΛΙΑΔΕΣ
Πληρωτέαι ἐπί τῇ ἐμφανίσει
Ἐν Ἀθήναις τῇ 28ῃ Ὀκτωβρίου 1950
ΟΙ ΔΙΕΥΘΥΝΤΑΙ
Ο ΔΙΟΙΚΗΤΗΣ
ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΣ ΣΟΛΩΜΟΣ
5.000 5.000

Reverse

Brown on multicolour underprint.
Circular window for watermark at right, painting "The Exodus from Missolonghi" by Vryzakis Theodoros (depicting Greek fighters battling against Turkish forces) throughout note. Bank name within frame at top, version of issue and printer's name at bottom.

Script: Greek

Lettering:
5.000 ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ 5.000
ΒΡΥΖΑΚΗ-Η ΕΞΟΔΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΜΕΣΟΛΟΓΓΙΟΥ
ΕΚΔΟΣΙΣ ΤΕΤΑΡΤΗ
5.000 ΙΔΡΥΜΑ ΤΡΑΠΕΖΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ 5.000

Watermark

Head of Apollo.

Printer

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

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Date	References		Frequency
Undetermined
1950-Oct-28	P# 184a Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).	Issued note	96%
1950-Oct-28	P# 184s Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).	Red overprint "SPECIMEN", serial # αβ- 000000	4%

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Version	Grade	Sold price
	Auktionshaus Christoph Gärtner Auction 45 Lot 1712	9 Oct 2019	1950-Oct-28 – P# 184s – Red overprint "SPECIMEN", serial # αβ- 000000	AU (lightly thin paper at left border)	USD 789.73 (EUR 680.00) (+ buyer's premium)
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