200 Drachmes

Features

Issuer	Greece
Issuing bank	Bank of Greece (Τράπεζα της Ελλάδος)
Period	Third Hellenic Republic (1974-date)
Type	Standard circulation banknotes
Year	1996
Value	200 Drachmai (200 GRD)
Currency	Third modern drachma (1954-2001)
Composition	Paper
Size	129 × 65 mm
Shape	Rectangular
Issued	4 November 1996
Demonetized	1 March 2012
Number	N# 204828
References	P# 204 Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).

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Series: Bank of Greece: issue of 1978-1997

Obverse

Orange on multicolour underprint.
Rigas Velestinlis-Feraios (born Antonios Rigas Velestinlis); people playing and singing; the quote "The one who thinks freely, thinks well."

Script: Greek

Lettering:
ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ
ΔΡΑΧΜΕΣ ΔΙΑΚΟΣΙΕΣ
ΠΛΗΡΩΤΕΕΣ ΜΕ ΤΗΝ ΕΜΦΑΝΙΣΗ
ΑΘΗΝΑ 2 ΣΕΠΤΕΜΒΙΟΥ 1996
200
Ο ΔΙΟΙΚΗΤΗΣ
Ο ΔΙΕΥΘΥΝΤΗΣ
ΟΠΟΙΟΣ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΑ ΣΥΛΛΟΓΑΤΑΙ ΚΑΛΑ
ΡΗΓΑΣ ΒΕΛΕΣΤΙΝΛΗΣ-ΦΕΡΑΙΟΣ 1821
200 200

Translation:
Bank of Greece
Two hundred drachmes
Payable on demand
Athens, 2 September 1996
200
Governor (signature of Lukas Papadimos)
Manager (signature of Konstantinos Argyropoulos)
"The one who thinks freely, thinks well"
Rigas Velestinlis-Feraios 1821
200 200

Designer: Pericles Sotiriou

Reverse

Orange on multicolour underprint.
''The Secret School'', an oil painting by Nikolaos Gyzis.

Script: Greek

Lettering:
200 ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ 200
200
ΔΡΑΧΜΕΣ ΔΙΑΚΟΣΙΕΣ
το Κρυφό Σχολειό

Translation:
200 Bank of Greece 200
200
Two hundred drachmes
"the Secret School"

Designer: Nikos Nikolaou

Watermark

Head of King Philip II of Macedonia

Printer

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

Comments

The quote "The one who thinks freely, thinks well" was incorrectly attributed to be from Rigas Feraios, but was originally written by Albrecht von Haller, as detailed by this publication and this article.

The amount of notes printed is an estimate, based on known existing serial numbers.

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Date	No. printed	G	VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC	References		Frequency
Undetermined
1996-Sep-02	112 000 000	$ 0.67	$ 0.87	$ 1.20	$ 1.20	$ 1.60	$ 2.20	$ 3.00	P# 204a Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).	Issued note	93%
1996-Sep-02									P# 204r Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).	Replacement note, prefix 00Α	0.4%
1996-Sep-02									P# 204s Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).	Specimen, serial # 00Α 000000	0.4%

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