Catalog of Greek coins in euro
The euro replaced In Greece the Greek drachma (GRD), with an exchange rate of 1 EUR = 340 750 GRD.
Greek euro coins were designed by Georgios Stamatopoulos. In copper coins are represented ships, in particular:
- 1 euro cent: trireme ship of the fifth century BC;
- 2 euro cents: corvette of the nineteenth century;
- 5 euro cents: an oil tanker.
The bronze coins recall famous Greek personalities:
- Rigas Velestinlis-Fereos (1757 - 1798), poet;
- Ioannis Kapodistrias (11.02.1776 - 09.10.1831), first head of state after the greek independence from Russia;
- Eleftherios Venizelos (23/08/1864 - 18/03/1936), a politician of modern Greece.
The 1 euro coin recalls the ancient tetradrachm of Athens of the fifth century BC, with the representation of the owl, an animal sacred to the goddess Athena.
The 2-euro coin shows the scene of the abduction of the goddess Europa by Zeus transformed in a bull.
The value of the coins is expressed with the Latin alphabet on the common face, and with the Greek alphabet on the national side; the national side of cents coins shows the Greek translation lepto (λεπτό) for the singular and lepta (λεπτά) in the plural, like on the old drachma.
In addition to the 12 stars of the founding countries of the European Union, the year of minting and the symbol of the Bank of Greece, in the first coins appear also the symbols of mints that helped Greece for the initial production of coins, which are:
- 1 euro and two euro from Finland, characterized by the symbol S;
- 20 euro cent from Spain, identified by the symbol E;
- 1 cent, 2 cents, 5 cents, 10 cents and 50 cents from France, marked with the letter F.
The coins produced in Greece didn't present any letter.
Link: Bank of Greece
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| 1 cent 2002- 16,25 mm 2,30 g steel, copper |
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| 2 cents 2002- 18,75 mm 3,06 g steel, copper |
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| 5 cents 2002- 21,25 mm 3,92 g steel, copper |
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| 10 cents 2002- 19,75 mm 4,10 g Nordic gold |
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| 20 cents 2002- 22,25 mm 5,74 g Nordic gold |
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| 50 cents 2002- 24,25 mm 7,80 g Nordic gold |
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| 1 euro 2002- 23,25 mm 7,50 g nickel, brass, copper |
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| 2 euro 2002- 25,75 mm 8,50 g nickel, brass, copper |
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2 euro commemorative coins
| 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens |
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| 2007 50th Anniversary of the Signature of the Treaty of Rome |
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| 2009 Ten years of Economic and Monetary Union |
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| 2010 25th Centenary of the Battle of Marathon |
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| 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Athens |
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| 2012 10th Anniversary of Euro coins |
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| 2013 100th Anniversary of the Union of Crete with Greece |
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| 2013 2400th Anniversary of the Founding of the Platonic Academy |
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| 2014 400 Years since the Death of El Greco |
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| 2014 150th Anniversary of the Union of the Ionian Islands with Greece |
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| 2015 30th Anniversary of the Flag of Europe |
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| 2015 75 Years since the Death of Spyridon Louis |
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| 2016 120 years since the birth of Dimitri Mitropoulos |
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| 2016 150 years since the Arkadi Monastery torching |
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| 2017 60 years since the death of Nikos Kazantzakis |
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| 2017 Archaeological site of Philippi |
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| 2018 70th anniversary of the union of the Dodecanese with Greece |
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| 2018 75 years since the death of Kostis Palamas |
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| 2019 100 years since the birth of Manolis Andronikos |
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| 2019 150 years since the death of Andreas Kalvos |
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| 2020 25th Centenary of the Battle of Thermopylae |
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| 2020 100th anniversary of the union of Thrace with Greece |
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| 2021 200 years since the Greek Revolution |
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| 2022 200 years from the first Greek Constitution |
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| 2022 35 years of the Erasmus programme |
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| 2023 150 years from the birth of Constantin Carathéodory |
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| 2023 100 years from the birth of Maria Callas |
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