Museum of paper money
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Museum of paper money in Corfu Town is a unique museum in Greece. This is one of the few museums of this kind around the world with the most complete collection. The museum was founded in 1981 and is located on the first floor of a historic building, which was built around 1840, designed by local architect Mr Ioannis Hronisa. Once this building was the first branch of the Ionian Bank of Corfu.

The museum has a rich collection of banknotes and coins, bank records, ledgers, checks, printing, archival documents, photos, etc. The museum contains an almost complete collection of Greek banknotes from the first, which were printed in 1822, and until the last, which had been withdrawn from circulation in 2002 with the introduction of "euro". This exhibition demonstrates the full history of Greek banknotes and has about 2,000 items.

Among the rare exhibits of the museum is to provide banknotes with the image of the Byzantine church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople without Ottoman minarets, issued in 1920 and were never distributed. Of interest are the banknotes issued under the first governor of Greece, Ioannis Kapodistrias. The museum also features rare banknotes in art deco style, printed in France, with the image of Hermes, banknotes issued by the occupiers during the Second World War, and the banknote 100 billion. Drachmas period of hyperinflation in 1944.

In 2005, after reconstruction of the building and a radical reorganization of the collection to the highest modern standards, the museum was opened to the public. In July 2007, the second floor of the building has been equipped to host art exhibitions and other cultural events.

In the museum you can see a visual presentation of the modern manufacturing process of banknotes, starting from the sketch up to engraved with the seal.

Today the Museum of paper money is one of the most visited museums in Corfu.

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