BOMBED NOTE THAT WAS NEVER ISSUED

This is a bit of an interesting note with a bit of history to it. It is the Turkish 50 Kurus note from 1942-44. It however was not issued because while being delivered from the printers by boat towards the beginning of WWII, the boat was bombed by the Germans in the Greek harbour of Piraeus and later they were retrieved by locals which led to Turkey cancelling the notes and re-issuing a different note. The note has President Inonu on the front and the bank building on the reverse.

more Turkish notes HERE and HERE

TWO GREEK NOTES

The two notes above are from Pre-Euro Greece. The top note is the older , from 1942 and is the 5000 drachma note. The front has two workers on either side of the statue of Nike of Samothrace and on the reverse is farmers hard at work !!
The lower note is a slightly newer note from 1964 and has the head of Arethusa on the front and ancient  and modern ship builders on the reverse.

More Greek notes HERE

GREECE

The Hellenic Republic of Greece is a country on the south west tip of Europe with its capital City being Athens. Greece Gained its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1829. In 1940, during  WWII the Italians invaded followed by a German occupation which lasted until 1944.  A civil war then followed between the monarchists and the communists. Following the defeat of the Communists in 1949, Greece joined NATO in 1952.In 1981 Greece joined the EU and in 2001 joined the Eurozone.

Greece has its own alphabet which you can find here

Moetary unit: 1 Drachma = 100 Lepta (1841 - 2001)
                    1 Euro = 100 Cents (2001 onward)

This note is the 100 Drachmai note from 1978. The front of the note has the Goddess Athena and the reverse has Adamantios Korais, a humanist Scholar and the church of the Arkadi monastery in Crete to the right.