The Handwritten Letter
Anagnostopoulos’s Manuscript
We have here a letter handwritten by Panagiotis Anagnostopoulos in 1831. As the Special Commissioner of Ilida, he sends a letter to the Greek state, reporting that Dimos Kanellopoulos, who had rented from the state a fish farm in Agoulitza, paid the sum of 7280 phoenixes as rent for the first year of use. The remaining 7819 would be paid in Nafplio by his brother, Dimos Kanellopoulos. It should be noted that, with the creation of the new Greek state, one of the changes that Kapodistrias endorsed was that of currency. Thus, the Greeks adopted the phoenix instead of the Turkish grosz.
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Historical Library of Andritsaina