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Message:: [QUOTE="hotwheelsearl, post: 3380025, member: 75143"]This Greek 5000 drachmai note is a bit weird. It has an odd texture to it. Obverse features the Winged Nike of Samothrace between two workers.The story with the Nike is interesting. It was originally a naval victory monument, but nobody knows what it actually looked like. When found, it was missing one wing, both arms, and the head. So all that was left was a torso and a single wing.The make the missing wing, they plaster casted the remaining one and so the two are essentially mirror copies of each other.They found a fragment of one of the hands, but not much else exists from the statue.The reconstruction is simply an estimate based on other existing monuments, small-scale replicas, descriptions, and coins.Nevertheless, the statue remains one of the most famous and well-known examples of Hellenistic art in the entire world, despite its rather poor state of preservation.[ATTACH=full]897497[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]897499[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]897500[/ATTACH]  Reverse features a very Soviet-looking "workers paradise." Guess Greece was into that for a while.[ATTACH=full]897501[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]