The Banknote Museum of the Ionian Bank in Corfu, Greece has opened a new permanent exhibit. Thanks to Coins Weekly for publishing
an exhibit notice in their July 21, 2016 issue. -Editor
In the Museum visitor can see all issues that were circulated by the editorial banks and beyond, throughout the history of the modern
Greek State. The Collection includes banknotes paper coins, documentation and related material, covering 180 years history of the Greek
banknote: starting from the revolutionary Bonds in piastres issued by the of the Provisional Administration of Greece in 1822, the first
phoenix of Kapodistrias circulated in 1831, and reaching up to the last drachmas which have been withdrawn in 2002 with the introduction of
the Euro.
At the permanent exhibition tours and educational programmes are organised. The second floor is available for organising temporary
exhibitions.
Aghiou Spyridonos Square
(Iroon Kypriakou Agonos Square)
GR-491 00 CORFU
To read the complete article, see:
(http://www.alphanumismatics.gr/collection.aspx?id=6&lang=en)
BANKNOTE MUSEUM OF THE IONIAN BANK - CORFU
To read the Coins Weekly article, see:
New Permanent Exhibition at
Corfu's Banknote Museum (/www.coinsweekly.com/en/News/New-Permanent-Exhibition-at-Corfus-Banknote-Museum/4?&id=4203)
Wayne Homren, Editor
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