A reminder of why the Greeks and Germans are lashed together in a common currency called the euro sits in a 19th century Athens mansion built by a German for a German.
The Greek capital’s Numismatic Museum traces the history of money from antiquity when Greece minted coins to today’s euro. Amid the exhibits is a 100 billion-drachma note from 1944. The bill was issued in the wake of the Nazi occupation when war and famine drove inflation to as high as 13,800 percent a month.
