Greek 10 euro coins
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:
 | 10 euros - Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis (1885-1957), Greek author and translator, whose best-known work in English is the novel Zorba the Greek. He was born in Candia (now Iraklion), Crete, and educated at the University of Athens, where he received his law degree. After gradu ...| Krause - Misler | #224 | | Diameter | 28.25 mm | | Thickness | 1.92 mm | | Weight | 9.75 gr | | Composition | Silver .925 (sterling) | | Edge | Shaped edge with fine scallops | | Comments | Designer: Georgios Stamatopoulos |
| Date | Mintage | Grade | Price | Shop | | 2007 | 5,000 | Proof | - | View |
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 | 10 euros - Maria Callas
Maria Callas (1923-1977), American-born Greek operatic soprano, the preeminent prima donna (lead female opera singer) of her day, and the first modern soprano to revive forgotten operas of the 19th-century bel canto repertoire. Callas revolutionized opera ...| Krause - Misler | #223 | | Diameter | 28.25 mm | | Thickness | 1.92 mm | | Weight | 9.75 gr | | Composition | Silver .925 (sterling) | | Edge | Shaped edge with fine scallops | | Comments | Designer: Georgios Stamatopoulos |
| Date | Mintage | Grade | Price | Shop | | 2007 | 5,000 | Proof | - | View |
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 | 10 euros - Valia Kalda - Pine trees
Valia Kalda means warm valley. Spreading over 6,8 acres, it is the biggest and most important national park of Greece. Its official name is the National Park of southern Pindos. It is situated at the mountain range of Pindos, around 25km north of Metsovo, ...| Krause - Misler | #222 | | Diameter | 40 mm | | Weight | 34 gr | | Composition | Silver .925 (sterling) | | Edge | Smooth | | Comments | Designer: Georgios Stamatopoulos |
| Date | Mintage | Grade | Price | Shop | | 2007 | 5,000 | Proof | - | View |
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 | 10 euros - Valia Kalda - Flowers
The river of Arkoudorema passes through the national park in Valia Kalda. The flora is just as impressive, with hundreds of types of trees, herbs, flowers and other plants which can only be found there. The geology and the flora are remnants of the ice ag ...| Krause - Misler | #221 | | Diameter | 40 mm | | Weight | 34 gr | | Composition | Silver .925 (sterling) | | Edge | Smooth | | Comments | Designer: Georgios Stamatopoulos |
| Date | Mintage | Grade | Price | Shop | | 2007 | 5,000 | Proof | - | View |
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 | 10 euros - Mount Olympus (Dion)
Mount Olympus is the highest mountain in Greece, its altitude ranging from 600 (near Litohoro, Pieria Perfecture) to 2,917 meters (at its highest peak, Pantheon or Mytikas). In 1987 the mountain was declared a National Park, the first in Greece, and in 19 ...| Krause - Misler | #220 | | Diameter | 40 mm | | Weight | 34 gr | | Composition | Silver .925 (sterling) | | Edge | Round | | Comments | Designer: Georgios Stamatopoulos |
| Date | Mintage | Grade | Price | Shop | | 2006 | 5,000 | Proof | - | View |
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 | 10 euros - Mount Olympus (Dias)
In Greek mythology, Zeus was the son of Cronus and Rhea and the highest ranking god among the Olympian gods. He was god of the sky and thunder and his attributes included thunder and the lightning bolt, the scepter, and the eagle. Zeus (in Greek Dias) was ...| Krause - Misler | #219 | | Diameter | 40 mm | | Weight | 34 gr | | Composition | Silver .925 (sterling) | | Edge | Round | | Comments | Designer: Georgios Stamatopoulos |
| Date | Mintage | Grade | Price | Shop | | 2006 | 5,000 | Proof | - | View |
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 | 10 euros - Patras
In 2006, Patras set off on a unique travel following the course of culture and development. Through music, drama, visual arts and dance, the capital of Achaia took advantage of the historical opportunity of being appointed as European Capital of Culture i ...| Krause - Misler | #218 | | Diameter | 28.25 mm | | Thickness | 1.92 mm | | Weight | 9.75 gr | | Composition | Silver .925 (sterling) | | Edge | Spanish flower shape | | Comments | Designer: Georgios Stamatopoulos |
| Date | Mintage | Grade | Price | Shop | | 2006 | 20,000 | Proof | - | View |
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 | 10 euros - National Park Olympus
Mount Olympus is the highest mountain in Greece at 2,919 metres high. Since its base is located at sea level, it is one of the highest mountains in Europe in terms of topographic prominence, the relative altitude from base to top. Mount Olympus is noted f ...| Krause - Misler | #217 | | Diameter | 28.25 mm | | Weight | 9.75 gr | | Composition | Silver .925 (sterling) | | Edge | Spanish flower shape | | Comments | Designer: Georgios Stamatopoulos |
| Date | Mintage | Grade | Price | Shop | | 2005 | 25,000 | Proof | - | View |
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 | 10 euros - Greek EU Presidency
EU Accession Treaty in Athens The Treaty of Accession 2003 was the agreement between the European Union and ten countries (Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia), concerning these countries a ...| Krause - Misler | #208 | | Diameter | 28.25 mm | | Thickness | 1.92 mm | | Weight | 9.75 gr | | Composition | Silver .925 (sterling) | | Edge | Spanish flower shape |
| Date | Mintage | Grade | Price | Shop | | 2003 | 50,000 | Proof | - | View |
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 | 10 euros - Soccer - Series F
Athens 2004 Olympic Games Football games are common in many parts of the world even in ancient times. Some 2,500 years ago the Chinese played a form of it called Tsu chu, in which they kicked a ball of stuffed leather. Natives of Polynesia are know ...| Krause - Misler | #206 | | Diameter | 40 mm | | Weight | 34 gr | | Composition | Silver .925 (sterling) | | Edge | Smooth | | Comments | Engraver: Panayiotis Gravalos - Reliefs: Kostas Kazakos |
| Date | Mintage | Grade | Price | Shop | | 2004 | 68,000 | Proof | € 30 | Buy |
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 | 10 euros - Handball - Series F
Athens 2004 Olympic Games Handball is one of the world's oldest sports and many civilizations and nations claim its origins as their own. Even Homer in the Odyssey describes the game which was introduced at the Berlin Olympic Games in 1936 as an 11 ...| Krause - Misler | #205 | | Diameter | 40 mm | | Weight | 34 gr | | Composition | Silver .925 (sterling) | | Edge | Smooth | | Comments | Engraver: Panayiotis Gravalos - Reliefs: Kostas Kazakos |
| Date | Mintage | Grade | Price | Shop | | 2004 | 68,000 | Proof | € 29 | Buy |
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 | 10 euros - Wrestling - Series E
Athens 2004 Olympic Games Wrestling has been popular throughout recorded history. Early Egyptian and Babylonian reliefs depict wrestlers using most of the holds known to the modern sport. In ancient Greece, wrestling occupied a prominent place in l ...| Krause - Misler | #203 | | Diameter | 40 mm | | Weight | 34 gr | | Composition | Silver .925 (sterling) | | Edge | Smooth | | Comments | Engraver: Panayiotis Gravalos - Reliefs: Kostas Kazakos |
| Date | Mintage | Grade | Price | Shop | | 2004 | 68,000 | Proof | - | View |
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 | 10 euros - Weightlifting - Series E
Athens 2004 Olympic Games Weightlifting is a sport based on the lifting of a series of progressively heavier metal weights. It is popular internationally, notably in the United States, the countries of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ...| Krause - Misler | #202 | | Diameter | 40 mm | | Weight | 34 gr | | Composition | Silver .925 (sterling) | | Edge | Smooth | | Comments | Engraver: Panayiotis Gravalos - Reliefs: Kostas Kazakos |
| Date | Mintage | Grade | Price | Shop | | 2004 | 68,000 | Proof | € 31 | Buy |
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 | 10 euros - Swimming - Series D
Athens 2004 Olympic Games Swimming was highly esteemed in ancient Greece and Rome, as shown on vases and wall paintings dating back to 1,600 B.C., especially as a form of training for warriors. On the coin a woman swimmer is depicted, prepar ...| Krause - Misler | #200 | | Diameter | 40 mm | | Weight | 34 gr | | Composition | Silver .925 (sterling) | | Edge | Smooth | | Comments | Engraver: Panayiotis Gravalos - Reliefs: Kostas Kazakos |
| Date | Mintage | Grade | Price | Shop | | 2003 | 68,000 | Proof | € 39 | Buy |
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 | 10 euros - Ribbon dancer - Series D
Athens 2004 Olympic Games Rhythmic Gymnastics is one of the oldest sports in the world. In ancient Greece, three distinct programmes of gymnastic exercise were developed: one for the maintenance of good physical condition, another for military trai ...| Krause - Misler | #199 | | Diameter | 40 mm | | Weight | 34 gr | | Composition | Silver .925 (sterling) | | Edge | Smooth | | Comments | Engraver: Panayiotis Gravalos - Reliefs: Kostas Kazakos |
| Date | Mintage | Grade | Price | Shop | | 2003 | 68,000 | Proof | € 26 | Buy |
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 | 10 euros - Show riding - Series C
Athens 2004 Olympic Games Equestrian or Horse Riding is a noble sport of great tradition, always reminding us of the unbreakable relation between human beings and horses. These events were developed primary from training horses for war and many rep ...| Krause - Misler | #197 | | Diameter | 40 mm | | Weight | 34 gr | | Composition | Silver .925 (sterling) | | Edge | Smooth | | Comments | Engraver: Panayiotis Gravalos - Reliefs: Kostas Kazakos |
| Date | Mintage | Grade | Price | Shop | | 2003 | 68,000 | Proof | € 33 | Buy |
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 | 10 euros - Relay - Series C
Athens 2004 Olympic Games Relay races can be traced to the ancient custom of sending messages via a series of couriers (skytalodromoi or "runners with a message stick"). Each courier handed the stick over to the next until its destination was safel ...| Krause - Misler | #196 | | Diameter | 40 mm | | Weight | 34 gr | | Composition | Silver .925 (sterling) | | Edge | Smooth | | Comments | Engraver: Panayiotis Gravalos - Reliefs: Kostas Kazakos |
| Date | Mintage | Grade | Price | Shop | | 2003 | 68,000 | Proof | - | View |
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 | 10 euros - Long Jump - Series B
Athens 2004 Olympic Games Long jump is one of the classical track events, drawing its roots from ancient times. In antiquity only the long jump without momentum existed, where the athlete had to hold a jumpingweight in each hand, which he swung vig ...| Krause - Misler | #194 | | Diameter | 40 mm | | Weight | 34 gr | | Composition | Silver .925 (sterling) | | Edge | Smooth | | Comments | Engraver: Panayiotis Gravalos - Reliefs: Kostas Kazakos |
| Date | Mintage | Grade | Price | Shop | | 2003 | 68,000 | Proof | € 32 | Buy |
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 | 10 euros - Javelin - Series B
Athens 2004 Olympic Games The javelin was on the programme of the ancient Olympic Games as one of the pentathlon sports and took on two forms: a) throwing the javelin for distance and b) throwing the javelin at a target, in an event that may be lik ...| Krause - Misler | #193 | | Diameter | 40 mm | | Weight | 34 gr | | Composition | Silver .925 (sterling) | | Edge | Smooth | | Comments | Engraver: Panayiotis Gravalos - Reliefs: Kostas Kazakos |
| Date | Mintage | Grade | Price | Shop | | 2003 | 68,000 | Proof | € 32 | Buy |
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 | 10 euros - Disc throwing - Series A
Athens 2004 Olympic Games Disc throwing is one of the most "noble" sporting events, since it did not have any direct connection with military exercises or farm work. It has remained virtually unchanged in the 28 centuries of its history, bearing th ...| Krause - Misler | #191 | | Diameter | 40 mm | | Weight | 34 gr | | Composition | Silver .925 (sterling) | | Edge | Smooth | | Comments | Engraver: Panayiotis Gravalos - Reliefs: Kostas Kazakos |
| Date | Mintage | Grade | Price | Shop | | 2003 | 68,000 | Proof | € 31 | Buy |
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 | 10 euros - Running athletes - Series A
Athens 2004 Olympic Games Athletics has its roots in ancient Greek history and today Greeks still refer to Athletic events as classical sports. The Olympic Games in 776 BC included a 192.2 m sprint known as the one stadium race (equivalent to today ...| Krause - Misler | #190 | | Diameter | 40 mm | | Weight | 34 gr | | Composition | Silver .925 (sterling) | | Edge | Smooth | | Comments | Engraver: Panayiotis Gravalos - Reliefs: Kostas Kazakos |
| Date | Mintage | Grade | Price | Shop | | 2003 | 68,000 | Proof | - | View |
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 | 10 euros - Yannis Ritsos Year
Yiannis Ritsos (May 1, 1909 - Athens November 11, 1990) was a Greek poet and left-wing activist and an active member of the Greek resistance during World War II. His landmark poem Epitaphios, published in 1936, broke with the shape of Greek traditional po ...| Diameter | 28.25 mm | | Thickness | 1.92 mm | | Weight | 9.75 gr | | Composition | Silver .925 (sterling) | | Edge | Shaped edge with fine scallops |
| Date | Mintage | Grade | Price | Shop | | 2009 | 5,000 | Proof | - | View |
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 | 10 euros - International Year of Astronomy
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 of J ...| Diameter | 28.25 mm | | Thickness | 1.92 mm | | Weight | 9.75 gr | | Composition | Silver .925 (sterling) | | Edge | Shaped edge with fine scallops |
| Date | Mintage | Grade | Price | Shop | | 2009 | 5,000 | Proof | - | View |
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 | 10 euros - Acropolis Museum
The Acropolis Museum was located in Athens, Greece on the archeological site of Acropolis until June 2007. It was considered one of the major archaeological museums in Athens and ranked among the most important museums of the world. Due to its limited siz ...| Diameter | 28.25 mm | | Weight | 9.75 gr | | Composition | Silver .925 (sterling) | | Edge | Spanish flower shape | | Comments | Designer: Georgios Stamatopoulos |
| Date | Mintage | Grade | Price | Shop | | 2008 | 10,000 | Proof | - | View |
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Euro collector coin issues
According to the Conclusions of the Ecofin Council meeting on January 31, 2000, to ensure that Euro collector coins will
be readily distinguishable from Euro coins intended for circulation, the coins must bide to the following rules:
- The face value of collector coins should be different from that of the coins intended for circulation (i.e.
Euro coins cannot have a face value equal to the 8 denominations: 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 Euro cent and 1 and 2 Euro)
- Collector coins should not use images, which are similar to the common sides of the euro coins intended for
circulation. Furthermore, as far as possible, the designs used should also be at least slightly different from those
of the national sides of circulation coins
- Out of colour, diameter and thickness, euro collector coins should differ significantly from the coins intended
for circulation in two respects
- Collector coins should not have a shaped edge with fine scallops, or "Spanish flower"
- The identity of the issuing Member State should be clearly and easily recognisable
Euro collector coins may be sold at or above face value and the approval for the volume of collector coins issue
should be sought on an aggregate basis rather than for each individual issue. With respect to collector coins'
denominations, that may coincide with the low denominations of euro banknotes, there does not seem to exist any significant
risk of substitution. However, Member States should stand ready to consider any demands by the ECB on this matter. While
Euro collector coins will have legal tender status in the issuing Member State, the competent authorities (NCBs, Mints or
other institutions) should set up temporary arrangements through which owners of euro collector coins issued in other
euro area Member States can receive the face value of those coins while bearing the costs related to this transaction.
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