Real Estate Bank Bonded Loan (National Bank of Greece) with Lottery tickets on loan entitling the winner of the Lottery in Bank Capital Bills.
[This was a complex concept for Loans made for financing projects with internal borrowing because Greece did not have access to capital markets.]
Capital of Drs 20,500,000 in Bank-notes at 2½% per year, divided in 205.000 bonds of Drs 100 payable to bearer.
Issued in Athens on 1/14 November 1904; serial Number: 156,000. Printed in England by Bradbury Wilkinson & Co, Graveurs, Londres (Engravers, London).
Bond of 100 drachmae; text in Greek/French, serial Number: 156,000. Last four coupons (51-54) attached.
The bond bears affixed stamp in olive color, titled “Δ.Ο.Ε.” [(IOC) International Financial Control of Greece's public finances], applied at upper left corner, and texted ‘ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΟΝ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ, ΚΙΝΗΤΟΝ ΕΠΙΣΗΜΑ’, overprinted ‘ΛΕΠ. 50 / ΠΕΝΤΗΚΟΝΤΑ’ in purple [Kingdom of Greece, Stamp Duty 50 lepta]; cancelled in June 1912 with difficult to decifer d.r. ΕΘΝΙΚΗ ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ dated marking in blue.
Underwritten by Bank Broker Ioannis FOTIOU in Athens [ΤΡΑΠΕΖΟΜΕΣΙΤΗΣ ΙΩ. ΦΩΤΙΟΥ], and stamped on March 20, 1913.
Condition: Good; see scans.