500DRH GREEK DRAHMA from 1932 FIRST CUT (A)

Description

Greek 500 drahma from 1932 Bank of Greece printed by American Bank Note Company
The
National Bank of Greece
(
NBG
;
Greek
:
Εθνική Τράπεζα της Ελλάδος
) is a global banking and financial services company with its headquarters in
Athens
, Greece. From the operations in Greece come 85% of its pretax preprovision profits, complemented by 15% from
Southeastern Europe
.
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The group offers financial products and services for corporate and institutional clients along with private and business customers. Services include banking services, brokerage, insurance, asset management, shipping finance, leasing and factoring markets. The group is the second largest Greek bank by total assets and the second largest by market capitalisation of 1.73 Billion Euro as at 30 August 2016.
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It is the largest by deposits in Greece, it is not the largest by assets in Greece, trailing
Piraeus Bank
. It is third largest by Greek loan assets trailing
Piraeus Bank
and
Alpha Bank
.
The Swiss banker
Jean-Gabriel Eynard
and
Georgios Stavros
founded NBG in 1841 as a commercial bank. Stavros was also elected as the first director of the Bank until his death in 1869.
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From NBG's inception until the establishment of the
Bank of Greece
in 1928, NBG enjoyed the right to issue banknotes. When the
Athens Stock Exchange
was founded in 1880, NBG immediately listed on the exchange, a listing it has retained to the present.
The bank is currently listed on the
Athens Exchange
(
Athex
:
ETE
,
ISIN
GRS003003019); it is a constituent of the
FTSE/Athex Large Cap
index. From 1999 to 2015 it was listed on the
New York Stock Exchange
(NYSE:NBG,
ADR
, ISIN US6336437057).
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