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actually watch them so today I have this
Greek five thousand drachma home
banknote I was gonna say coin bet that
he's just habit so this is actually the
second highest banknote ever issued by
Greece in the third document series this
was issued in the first of the six I
here you go first of a six nine and
ninety seven in Athens to Athena that is
a capital of Greece and at the time I
had oh it was varied about 250 drachma
to one Australian dollar
so this one is equivalent to about 20
dollars back then now with inflation
we'd actually with a lot more now so
this guy on here is theodoros collar
collar local furnace I hope I didn't put
his name that much so has his initial
day name in his food last night and he
was actually a general during the Greek
war of independence between 1921 and 29
and he actually operated mainly in the
Peloponnese that's that's what where his
feet was and he was one of the generals
who successfully defended the
Peloponnese against year the Turks and
then later day Egyptians when they
invaded on behalf of Turkey or the
Ottoman Empire and
this building down here is connected
with him because this is the holy
apostate of Kalamata Church this is
where all the representatives of the
various independence groups met to
coordinate airplanes and it Kalamata was
actually the first city officially
liberated from the Turks in 1821 and
yeah so the security features on this
Bank now probably UV which other I have
a UV lamp so I can't show you but I need
to get one he has a security fred and a
watermark no watermark it looks like one
of the great gods but I'm not too sure
which Greek god at ease it could be
Harry Harry's the God of War Ares I mean
got a war but I'm not too sure and on
the side here heads who actually printed
it no it just actually says the paint
good think of her a graceful fifteen
drachma so on the reverse of the
banknote we actually have the CD of
k'ittain that now the cities this is the
the defense system up here the city is
actually Dan you know surrounding it and
here is a bridge looks like Roman style
bridge looks pretty damaged itself it
could be like an ottoman type bridge we
just based on our Roman technology but
I've not been able to actually find any
information on that bridge so maybe it
was actually destroyed during the War of
Independence and this is actually a
painting done by Carl Rothman somewhere
in the 1830s and he actually winter in
Greece and painted very soon
he's of Greece he was pretty famous and
for painting a lot of paintings over the
Peloponnese and I believe up here either
Carrie Carrie Dana Castle that's a play
caller and this is also unique in it
this was the first town to actually rise
up against agree yeah this hooks they
were quickscoping getting up so confused
so just was the first town to rise up
against Turks it was not the first to
get gay now freed but it tooks and color
rottenness to go on the front say him he
actually used this as a base against the
invasion of the Peloponnese by the
Egyptians and the Ibrahim Pasha and they
were eventually defeated and eventually
the Ottomans settled on a trading that
gave Greece the independence of cause
there's too much pressure on Greece's on
themselves by Greece's choice so you we
have I think that's a logo of the Bank
of Greece looks like it probably a
Mycenaean iconography this definitely
looks like my senior so my scenes were
the earliest versions of the Greeks they
actually had an empire bit oh very fast
and 200 years ago the sea people
actually destroyed it when they invaded
it they destroyed the myceneans there be
no ones and the Hittites probably some
other civilizations that we don't know
of because that's why life is so he I
believe this is a security feature does
it
mmm-hmm no should actually do something
anyway that's an awesome thing that from
Greece to five thousand drachma
hopefully I can get the whole series
because I'm he's making that's quite
good
I like Greek history beautiful anyway
I'm probably going to sell this Bank now
put it on eBay if you're interested in
it you can check under my eBay store and
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