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Greek Banknotes 100 Drachma note 1916 National Bank of Greece
Obverse: Portrait of Georgios Stavros, first governor of the National Bank of Greece and Coat of arms of the Kingdom Greece.
Reverse: Statue of Eirene with the infant Ploutos by Kephisodotos with the restorations by Cavaceppi. (Glyptothek Sculpture Museum, Munich, Germany)
Printed by American Bank Note Company, New York.
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Eirene (Peace) bearing Plutus (Wealth), Roman copy after a Greek votive statue by Kephisodotos (ca. 370 BC) which stood on the agora in Athens.
Statue group erected in the Agora, Athens, c. 370 BC. Produced after the peace agreement between Athens and Sparta. Eirene, the Peace, is shown with her child Ploutos (Wealth). With the late classical style Eirene is like a Madonna with Jesus.
After the statues of the eponymoi come statues of gods, Amphiaraus, and Eirene carrying the boy Ploutos. It was a clever idea of these artists to place Wealth in the arms of Fortune, and so to suggest that she is his mother or nurse. Equally clever was the conception of Kephisodotos, who made the image of Peace for the Athenians with Wealth in her arms. Pausanias Description of Greece, Book I, Attica.
Cephisodotus or Kephisodotos (flourished about 400 - c. 360 BC) was a Greek sculptor, perhaps the father or an uncle of Praxiteles, one of whose sculptor sons was Cephisodotus the Younger.
The Glyptothek is a museum in Munich, Germany, which was commissioned by the Bavarian King Ludwig I to house his collection of Greek and Roman sculptures.