A story written in 1904, which tells the vicissitudes of the Greek public debt since its own absolute beginning in 1824. In the midst of a global financial crisis, today this book is also a modern book, that allows us to understand the dynamics of the Independence Loans that the provisional Greek Government contracted on the London market in 1824 and 1825, and the loan of an ill-advised entity that the Government of the new state contracted after 1832, without granting any benefit.