| Issuer | Greece |
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| Year | 1955 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
| Value | 20 Drachmai (20 GRD) |
| Currency | Third modern drachma (1954-2001) |
| Composition | Paper |
| Size | 155 × 67 mm |
| Shape | Rectangular |
| Printer | Banknote and Currency Printing Office (Ίδρυμα Εκτυπώσεως Τραπεζογραμματίων και Αξιών / Idryma Ektiposeos Trapezogrammation kai Axion), Holargos, Greece (1947-date) |
| Designer(s) | Alexandros Koroyiannakis |
| Engraver(s) | |
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| Reference(s) | P#190 |
| Obverse description | Blue on multicolored underprint. Portrait of Demokritos at left, denomination and signatures at centre, relief with soldiers and horses at right. |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ 20 ΔΡΑΧΜΑΙ ΕΙΚΟΣΙ ΠΛΗΡΩΤΕΑΙ ΕΠΙ Τῌ ΕΜΦΑΝΙΣΕΙ ΕΝ ΑΘΗΝΑΙΣ Τῌ 1η ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ 1955 Ο ΔΙΕΥΘΥΝΤΗΣ Ο ΔΙΟΙΚΗΤΗΣ Α Κ. ΔΗΜΟΚΡΙΤΟΣ 20 (Translation: 20 Bank of Greece 20 Twenty Drachmai Paid on appearance In Athens, 1st March 1955 Manager (signature of N. Karabateas) Governor (signature of Xenophon Zolotas) A. K. Demokritos 20) |
| Reverse description | Blue on pale yellow underprint. Scene from the `Symposium` by Plato at centre. |
| Reverse lettering | ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ ΤΟ ΣΥΜΠΟΣΙΟΝ ΤΟΥ ΠΛΑΤΩΝΟΣ 20 ΔΡΑΧΜΑΙ ΕΙΚΟΣΙ 20 ΙΔΡΥΜΑ ΤΡΑΠΕΖΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ (Translation: Bank of Greece The Symposion of Plato 20 Twenty Drachmai 20 [Printing] Works of the Bank of Greece) |
| Signature(s) | |
| Protection type | Watermark |
| Protection description | Head of Apollo |
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| Numisquare ID | 5762000290 |
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