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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hotwheelsearl, post: 3194217, member: 75143&quot;]1944 Greece 500 <i>million</i> Drachmai hyperinflation note.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse shows the head of a statue of Apollo. This particular statue is from the West Pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia. The statue is from the Early Classical time period.</p><p>The Temple of Zeus held one of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World - the colossal chryselephantine statue of Zeus. The statue was moved to Constantinople at one point, but was destroyed in an earthquake. The temple itself was completely ruined in an earthquake as well, but the pediment statues remained remarkably preserved - perhaps the best preserved Greek pediment <i>ever (</i>perhaps tied with the pediment of the Temple of Aphaia at Aegina). The reason was that the statues were completely buried very soon after the destruction of the temple, and remained that way until a (relatively) modern excavation.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]825211[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse shows a panel of the Panathenaic Frieze of the Parthenon in Athens. These sculptures were carved under the supervision of the famous Phidias, who was also the sculptor responsible for the statute of Zeus described above.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]825212[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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