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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MEC2, post: 3379211, member: 38692&quot;]Greece was the first foreign country I collected - great country to collect for a number of reasons. Alot of good designs with important cultural significance on them, terrible financial history which means a whole lot of issues and reissues and revaluations so you got new designs... the 1000 note above is an example, great ABNCo design, and if you can get past Stavros saggy pigeyed punchdrunk mug on the obverse (and on too many other Greek notes, only design flaw on the lot of them), the rest of the note is great, nice design, color, and the reverse is great. </p><p><br /></p><p>By the way that note issued in 1928 not 1926 under the Bank of Greece (the original says National Bank of Greece). They obviated the third sig at bottom. Bank of Greece is a central bank, National Bank of Greece is a private bank. NBG could issue notes until 1928, when... central bank took over. Hence, the old design, issued with the overprint.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think notes designed after the change to the central bank stopped using old Stavros. Below is a 1926 of mine, one of the last issues under the National Bank. Again, there is old Stavros... nice back though with old Greek coins, one of the things that drew me to their currency in the first place. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/Rh7rD3W.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/S8DoXAz.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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