Matthew Patay's
Note of the Month
December 2001
This month's featured note
is from Greece.
The denomination is 10,000 Drachmai and the Standard Catalog of World Paper Money
(SCWPM) Number is P-206.
(obverse)
The banknote is deep purple on multicolored under print. Dr. George Papanicolaou (1883-1962)
is at center. The doctor was the inventor of the "Pap" smear, a medical
breakthrough in the detection of uterine cancer in women.
The note is dated 1995.
(reverse)
A medical care frieze is at bottom center and a statue of Asclepius is at center
right. Asclepius was a mythological Greek physician; the son of Apollo and Coronis. His abilities were so impressive that Zeus eventually
(after killing and then reanimating him at the request of Apollo) made him
the god of medicine.