DRACHMA BANKNOTES

10.000-DRACHMA NOTE
Theme: Health

Main Design:

Front: Dr. George Papanicolaou (intaglio printing)

Reverse: Asclepius (intaglio printing)

Colouring: purple

Dimensions: 153x77mm.

Paper security features:

Watermark, head of King Philip of Macedonia.

Security thread.
Randomly distributed security fibres.

Date of issue: 16 January 1995.

5.000-DRACHMA NOTE

(circulating alongside the older note of the same denomination, issued on 23 March 1984).

Theme: Greek War of Independence (1821).

Main Design:

Front: General Theodoros Kolokotronis (intaglio printing)

Reverse: the town of Karytena (wet offset printing).

Colouring: deep blue

Dimensions: 147x74mm.

Paper security features:

Watermark, head of King Philip of Macedonia.

Electrotype watermark.
Security thread.
Randomly distributed security fibres.

Date of issue: 1 June 1997

1.000-DRACHMA NOTE
Theme: Ancient Olympia, birthplace of the Olympic
Games

Main Design:

Front: Head of Apollo (intaglio printing)

Reverse: Temple of Hera at Ancient Olympia and

Discobolus (discus thrower) by Myron (intaglio
printing).

Colouring: brown

Dimensions: 158x77mm.

Paper security features:

Watermark, head of Charioteer of Delphi.

Security thread.

Date of issue: 1 July 1987

500-DRACHMA NOTE
Theme: The first Governor in Greece after the War of
Independence (1821) agricultural development

Main Design:

Front: Ioannis Capodistrias (intaglio printing).

Reverse: The Citadel of Corfu (intaglio printing).

Colouring: green

Dimensions: 158x72mm.

Paper security features:

Watermark, head of Charioteer of Delphi.

Security thread.

Date of issue: 1 February 1983

200-DRACHMA NOTE
Theme: Nation's spiritual preparation for the Greek War of
Independence (1821)

Main Design:

Front: Rigas Velestinlis- Fereos (wet offset printing).

Reverse: ''The Secret School'', after an oil painting by Nikolaos

Gyzis (wet offset printing).

Colouring: orange.

Dimensions: 129x65mm.

Paper security features:

Watermark, head of King Philip of Macedonia.

Security thread.
Randomly distributed security fibres.

Date of issue: 2 September 1996.

100-DRACHMA NOTE
Theme: Letters - Education and their contribution to the
nation's independence

Main Design:

Front: Head of Athena (intaglio printing)

Reverse: Adamantios Korais (wet offset printing).

Colouring: red

Dimensions: 158x67mm.

Paper security features:

Watermark, head of Charioteer of Delphi.

Security thread.

Date of issue: 8 December 1978.