San Marino - 50 cents 2006 (The Three Towers of San Marino - La Guaita, La Cesta, Il Montale) EUR 2.10
Greece - 50 lepta 1978 (Markos Botsaris) EUR 0.30
Spain - 2 euros 2013 (Monastery and Site of the Escorial, Madrid) EUR 3.50
Greece - 50 lepta 1986 (Markos Botsaris) EUR 0.50
Netherlands - Complete Year Set 2012 EUR 7.90
The poorest member of the EU, Greece saw EMU as an essential step towards achieving its strategic and economic ambitions. In spite of the euro's weakness when Greece entered the euro-zone on January 1 2001, opinion polls showed that some 70 per cent of Greeks were in favour of membership. There was little attachment to the drachma, as europe's second-oldest currency was linked in Greek minds with economic and political backwardness. Greece leveraged the euro to encourage foreign direct investment with a view to the country becoming a business and transport hub, linking south-east Europe with EU markets.
The following 10 euros coins have circulated in Greece since the introduction of the Common European Currency on January 1, 2002:
Socrates, the Athenian philosopher, was one of the most prominent figures of ancient Greek culture. He devoted himself to discussing philosophy with people from all walks of life in the city’s public venues, but, unlike the sophists, refused payment for ...
Georgios Papanicolaou was a prominent Greek physician and researcher, best known as the eponymous inventor of the “Pap test” for the early detection of cervical cancer. Born in Kymi on the isle of Euboea, Papanicolaou graduated from the School of Medicine ...
The 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games were held during Summer 2011 in Athens, Greece, from 25 June to 4 July 2011. Special Olympics is the world's largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, providing year-round ...
The 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games were held during Summer 2011 in Athens, Greece, from 25 June to 4 July 2011. The coin shows the Panathinaiko Stadium, a marble stadium (Kallimarmaron) located on the Ardettos hill in Athens. In 1896, when the ...
The 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games were held during Summer 2011 in Athens, Greece, from 25 June to 4 July 2011. The coin shows the reverse shows the Acropolis, one of the most glorious creations of humankind. It was constructed between 447 and ...
The 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games were held during Summer 2011 in Athens, Greece, from 25 June to 4 July 2011. The coin depicts a torch bearer. The tradition of the Olympic torch relay, which culminates in the lighting of the Olympic cauldron ...
The first of Athens’ three great tragic poets of the 5th century BC, Aeschylus was born in Eleusis, Attica and was nurtured by Athenian democracy, as shaped by Cleisthenes’ reforms. With the new dramatic conventions that he introduced, i.e. a second actor ...
Sofia Vembo was a leading Greek singer and actress active from the interwar period to the early postwar years and the 50s. She became best known for her performance of patriotic songs during the Greco-Italian War, when she was dubbed the "Songstress of ...
The United Nations proclaimed 2010 to be the International Year of Biodiversity. You are an integral part of nature; your fate is tightly linked with biodiversity, the huge variety of other animals and plants, the places they live and their surrounding ...
The International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009) is a year-long celebration of astronomy, taking place in 2009 to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the first recorded astronomical observations with a telescope by Galileo Galilei and the publication ...
Greek Euro Coins
Author: Ioannis Androulakis