Greek euro coins catalog with values
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Circulation euro coins of Hellenic Republic
2 euro 2002 (2002-2006)
bi-metallic - nickel-brass/copper-nickel
2 EURO
EYPΩΠΗ 2 EYPΩ 2002
Coin value - 3-4 USD
2 euro 2008 (2007- )
bi-metallic - nickel-brass/copper-nickel
2 EURO
EYPΩΠΗ 2 EYPΩ 2008
Coin value - 5-10 USD
1 euro 2002 (2002-2006)
bi-metallic - copper-nickel/nickel-brass
1 EURO
1 EYPΩ 2007
Coin value - 2-3 USD
1 euro 2007 (2007- )
bi-metallic - copper-nickel/nickel-brass
1 EURO
1 EYPΩ 2007
Coin value - 2-3 USD
50 euro cent 2002 (2002-2006)
brass
50 EURO CENT
50 ΛЕПТА 2002 / EΛ. BEΛIZEΛO∑
Coin value - ~1 USD
50 euro cent 2009 (2007- )
brass
50 EURO CENT
50 ΛЕПТА 2002 / EΛ. BEΛIZEΛO∑ / Bust of El. Venizelos half left
Coin value - 3-5 USD
20 euro cent 2002 (2002-2006)
brass
20 EURO CENT
20 ΛЕПТА 2002 / I. KAПOΔI∑TPIA∑
Coin value - <1 USD
20 euro cent 2009 (2007- )
brass
20 EURO CENT
20 ΛЕПТА 2009 / I. KAПOΔI∑TPIA∑
Coin value - 3-5 USD
10 euro cent 2002 (2002-2006)
brass
10 EURO CENT
10 ΛЕПТА 2002 / PHГA∑ ФEPAIO∑
Coin value - <1 USD
10 euro cent 2007 (2007- )
brass
10 EURO CENT
10 ΛЕПТА 2007 / PHГA∑ ФEPAIO∑
Coin value - <1 USD
5 euro cent 2017 (2002- )
copper plated steel
5 EURO CENT
5 ΛЕПТА 2017
Coin value - <1 USD
2 euro cent 2002 (2002- )
copper plated steel
2 EURO CENT
2 ΛЕПТА 2002
Coin value - <1 USD
1 euro cent 2013 (2002- )
copper plated steel
1 EURO CENT
1 ΛЕПТO 2013
Coin value - <1 USD
Commemorative euro coins of Greece - chart with prices
2 euro 2004
bi-metallic - nickel-brass/copper-nickel
Olympics in Athens
2 EURO / Denomination and map
ATHENS 2004 / Discus thrower
Coin value - 3-5 USD
| Year | Face value | Mintage | Theme | Alloy | Diameter (mm) | Weight (gr) | Price in Euro |
| 2004 | 2 | 50000000 | XXVIII Summer Olympic Games 2004 in Athens | bimetallic | 25,75 | 8,5 | 5 |
| 2007 | 2 | 4000000 | 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome | bimetallic | 25,75 | 8,5 | 4 |
| 2009 | 2 | 4000000 | 10th anniversary of the Economic and Monetary Union | bimetallic | 25,75 | 8,5 | 4 |
| 2010 | 2 | 2500000 | 2500 years of the Marathon Battle | bimetallic | 25,75 | 8,5 | 4 |
| 2011 | 2 | 1000000 | XIII Olympic Games for persons with mental disabilities | bimetallic | 25,75 | 8,5 | 4 |
| 2012 | 2 | 1005000 | 10 years of euro cash circulation | bimetallic | 25,75 | 8,5 | 4 |
| 2013 | 2 | 754000 | 100th anniversary of the unification of Crete with Greece | bimetallic | 25,75 | 8,5 | 4 |
| 2013 | 2 | 754000 | 2400th anniversary of Platonic Academy | bimetallic | 25,75 | 8,5 | 4 |
| 2013 | 5 | 10000 | 150 years since the birth of Konstantinos Kavafis | copper-nickel | 30,5 | 11 | 15 |
| 2014 | 2 | 750000 | 150 years of alliance of the Ionian Islands with Greece | bimetallic | 25,75 | 8,5 | 3 |
| 2014 | 2 | 750000 | 400 years since the death of El Greco - (Domenikos Teotokopoulos) | bimetallic | 25,75 | 8,5 | 3 |
| 2014 | 5 | 7500 | 200 years of foundation of Flika Eteria Greece | copper-nickel | 30,5 | 18,8 | 15 |
| 2015 | 2 | 750000 | 30th anniversary of the European flag | bimetallic | 25,75 | 8,5 | 3 |
| 2015 | 2 | 750000 | 75 years since the death of Spyridon Louis | bimetallic | 25,75 | 8,5 | 3 |
| 2015 | 5 | 7500 | 100 years since the birth of musician Vasilis Tsitsanis | copper-nickel | 30,5 | 18,8 | 15 |
| 2016 | 2 | 750000 | 150 years since the Holocaust of Arkadi Monastery | bimetallic | 25,75 | 8,5 | 3 |
| 2016 | 2 | 750000 | 120 years since the birth of Dimitris Mitropoulos | bimetallic | 25,75 | 8,5 | 3 |
| 2016 | 5 | 6500 | 100 years co birthday of Yannis Moralis | copper-nickel | 30,5 | 18,8 | 15 |
| 2017 | 2 | 750000 | Philippa Archaeological Complex | bimetallic | 25,75 | 8,5 | 3 |
| 2017 | 2 | 750000 | 60 years old writer Nysos Kazandzakis | bimetallic | 25,75 | 8,5 | 3 |
| 2017 | 5 | 5000 | 175 years since the birth of artist Nikolaos Gizis | copper-nickel | 30,5 | 18,8 | 18 |
| 2018 | 2 | 750000 | 70th anniversary of the Dodecanese Islands Union | bimetallic | 25,75 | 8,5 | 3 |
| 2018 | 2 | 750000 | poet Costis Palamas | bimetallic | 25,75 | 8,5 | 3 |
| 2019 | 2 | 750000 | 150 years since the death of Andreas Kalvos | bimetallic | 25,75 | 8,5 | 3 |
| 2019 | 2 | 750000 | 100 years since the birth of Manolis Andronikos | bimetallic | 25,75 | 8,5 | 3 |
| 2019 | 5 | 5000 | Tulip Gulimi - Endemic flora of Greece | copper-nickel | 30,5 | 18,8 | 20 |
| 2019 | 5 | 5000 | 100 anniversary of the Loan Deposit and Loan Fund | copper-nickel | 30,5 | 18,8 | 65 |
| 2020 | 2 | 750000 | 2500 years of the Battle of Fermopil | bimetallic | 25,75 | 8,5 | 3 |
| 2020 | 2 | 750000 | 100 years since the inclusion of Thrace in Greece | bimetallic | 25,75 | 8,5 | 3 |
| 2021 | 2 | 1470000 | 200 years of independence from the Ottoman Empire | bimetallic | 25,75 | 8,5 | 3 |
| 2021 | 5 | 125000 | The first coins of the Greek state | copper-nickel + polymer | 27,25 | 9 | 70 |
| 2021 | 5 | 125000 | The first coins of the Greek state | copper-nickel + polymer | 27,25 | 9 | 70 |
| 2022 | 2 | 750000 | 200 years of Greece's first Constitution | bimetallic | 25,75 | 8,5 | 3 |
| 2022 | 2 | 3000000 | 35th anniversary of the Erasmus program | bimetallic | 25,75 | 8,5 | 3 |
Greek euro coins description
Hellenic Republic
Capital: Athens
Area: 131957 km2
Population: 10.815 million people (2011)
Official language: Greek
Monetary unit before the introduction of
the euro: Greek drachma = 100 lepta
Euro introduction date: January 1, 2002
Head of State: President
Form of government: parliamentary
republic
Greece joined the euro zone just a year
(January 1, 2001) before the introduction of the euro into cash circulation, so
the time to design coins and issue them was limited. The National
Mint did not have time to cope with such a volume of work, therefore, in order
to provide the country with the necessary number of coins by January 1, 2002, it
was decided to place orders for minting at the mints of France, Spain and
Finland.
The current minting of coins
8.
You can determine where the coin was
minted by the letter designation affixed to one of the stars around the
circumference. In this case, the letter E stands for the Royal Mint
of Spain, F - the Paris Mint, and the letter S - the Mint of Finland, and the
sign of the Athens Mint is on all the coins of Greece, regardless of where it
was minted.
All Greek euro coins are designed by the
sculptor of the coinage department of the Bank of Greece, Georgios Stamatopoulos
(HwpYou Eta ^ atopoi Hoi, translated into English as Georgios Stamatopoulos),
each of them has its own theme. At the same time, ships are
depicted on the lower denominations, great Greeks are depicted on the middle
denominations, and images from history and mythology are depicted on the higher
denominations.
On small coins of 1, 2 and 5 euro cents,
Greek ships are depicted. The obverse of 1 cent is decorated with
the image of the Athenian trireme, the largest, fastest and most maneuverable
warship of the ancient Greeks. The 2 cent coin depicts
The corvette was a Greek warship used in
the Greek War of Independence (1821-1827). The national side of the
5 cents is decorated with a modern sea tanker, symbolizing the advanced trends
in the development of Greek navigation.
The obverse of 10, 20 and 50 euro cents
is decorated with portraits of famous Greeks. The 10 cent depicts Rigas Fereos (c. 1757-1798), also known as Rigas Velestinlis or Rigas
Konstandinos, a Greek national hero, revolutionary poet and one of the first
participants in the Greek Enlightenment. The obverse of the 20
cents depicts John Capidostrius, the first ruler of independent Greece
(1827-1831). The 50-cent coin is decorated with a portrait of
Eleftherios Kyriakou Venizelos (1864-1936), a famous Greek politician, in
1910-1933. served several times as prime minister.
The national side of the 1 euro is
decorated with an owl depicted on an Athenian tetradrachm of the 5th century BC. BC e. Tetradrachma
is an ancient Greek silver coin with a face value of 4 drachmas and weighing
from 15.5 to 17 g, depending on the monetary system. Thus, the
tetradrachm of the Phoenician-Rhodian monetary system had the smallest weight,
and the largest - in the Attic monetary system. The minting of the
tetradrachm began in Athens around 510 BC. e. It was
also in the monetary circulation of Judea and Ancient Rome and was equal to 3
Roman denarii.
The 2 euro coin depicts a fragment of a
Spartan mosaic from the 3rd century BC. BC e. with
a scene from ancient Greek mythology. Zeus in the form of a bull
kidnaps the daughter of the Phoenician king, the beautiful Europa.
Depicting ships on Greek coins is a long tradition. Right - 50 drachmas 2000 from aluminum-bronze alloy Europe is named after her. In the upper left part of the obverse of the coin above the image there is an inscription in Greek: EYPHnH (EUROPE). It is worth noting that on the national side of the Greek coins the denomination designation is duplicated, however, in Greek. At the same time, the name of the change unit "cent" is translated as "mite" - this was the name of the ancient Greek copper coin. At the beginning of the XIX century. the mite was a bargaining unit for the Greek phoenix, and from 1832 - already the drachma.