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The 25 million drachmai of 1944 is decorated with a coin of the ancient Epirotes: on the front, on either side of the value, is an ancient coin of the Epirotes inscribed «APEIROTAN». The back shows only the value framed by guilloches.
Variety P130b has the series letters after the number.
Such notes are direct witnesses of the occupation hyperinflation: the Bank of Greece records that, because of «galloping inflation», huge denominations were printed during the war by various lithographers in the country, the last one, of 100 billion drachmas, on 5 November 1944. A few days later a law set one new drachma equal to 50 billion old ones.
In a Greece collection the note fills the 25-million slot; together with the 5 and 10 million notes it forms the «millions» step of the 1944 inflation. UNC condition means the note has never circulated: no folds, no wear, no soiling, even corners — just as it left the press.
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