Greece - 10 lepta 1976 (Charging bull) EUR 0.25
Greece - 10 lepta 1978 (Charging bull) EUR 0.30
Slovenia - 2 euros 2013 (800th anniversary of visits to Postojna Cave) EUR 3.25
Finland - 2 cents 1999 (The heraldic lion of Finland) EUR 1.30
Estonia - 2 cents 2012 (Geographical image of Estonia) EUR 0.25
Lepton (plural lepta) is the name of various fractional units of currency used in the Greek-speaking world from antiquity until today. The word means "small" or "thin", and during classical and Hellenistic times a lepton was always a small value coin, usually the smallest available denomination of another currency.
In modern Greece, lepton (modern form: lepto) is the name of the 1/100 denomination of all the official currencies of the Greek state: The phoenix (1827 – 1832), the drachma (1832 – 2001) and the euro (2002 – current). The following 10 lepta coins have circulated in Greece until the introduction of the Common European Currency on January 1, 2002:
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Greek Drachma Coins
Author: Ioannis Androulakis