It is the only museum of its kind operating in Greece and one of the few in the world. It is housed in a specially designed wing in the Ionian Bank building and has been operating since 1981. It includes a remarkable collection of rare banknotes, printing dies, photographs and models.
The impressive thing is that it presents all stages of banknote production, starting from its initial design and paper production to the way they are destroyed in old furnaces.
Among them stand out: the banknotes issued by the Ionian Bank from 1839 to 1920. Also, the first banknotes issued in liberated Greece in 1831, under the Kapodistrias government, and the first banknotes issued by the National Bank of Greece in 1840. Worth also see the collection of post-war banknotes from various countries and the Chinese banknote which dates back to 1300 and is one of the oldest surviving in the world.
Editor: Fotini Anastasopoulou
