Greek 50 lepta coins
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 50
lepta coins have circulated in Greece until the introduction of the
Common European Currency on January 1, 2002:
| 50 lepta - Markos Botsaris
The Greek War of Independence was a successful insurgency waged by the Greeks between 1821 and 1827 to win independence from the Ottoman Empire. Markos Botsaris (1788–1823) was a Greek patriot exiled from his native Epirus in 1803, who was prominent in th ...| Krause - Misler | #115 | | Diameter | 18 mm | | Thickness | 1.45 mm | | Weight | 2.5 gr | | Composition | Copper 79%, Zinc 20%, Nickel 1% | | Edge | Milled | | Comments | Engravers: N. Perantinos |
| Date | Mintage | Grade | Price | Shop | | 1986 | unknown | Uncirculated | € 0.5 | Buy | | 1984 | 1,208,000 | Uncirculated | € 0.9 | Buy | | 1982 | 3,365,000 | Uncirculated | € 0.25 | Buy | | 1980 | 6,682,000 | Uncirculated | € 0.25 | Buy | | 1978 | 12,010,000 | Uncirculated | € 0.3 | Buy | | 1976 | 15,400,000 | Uncirculated | € 0.4 | Buy |
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| 50 lepta - Phoenix
The phoenix bird symbolizes immortality, resurrection and life after death in the ancient Greek and Egyptian mythology. According to the Greeks, the bird lives in Arabia, near a cool well and every morning at dawn, the sun god would stop his chariot to li ...| Krause - Misler | #106 | | Diameter | 18 mm | | Weight | 2.3 gr | | Composition | Nickel - Brass | | Edge | Milled | | Comments | Engravers: I. Stinis, L. Orphanos (Athens Mint) |
| Date | Mintage | Grade | Price | Shop | | 1973 - Type B | 44,514,000 | Uncirculated | € 0.5 | Buy |
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| 50 lepta - Phoenix
The phoenix bird symbolizes immortality, resurrection and life after death in the ancient Greek and Egyptian mythology. According to the Greeks, the bird lives in Arabia, near a cool well and every morning at dawn, the sun god would stop his chariot to li ...| Krause - Misler | #97 | | Diameter | 18 mm | | Thickness | 1.45 mm | | Weight | 2.5 gr | | Composition | Copper 79%, Zinc 20%, Nickel 1% | | Edge | Milled | | Comments | Engraver: V. Falireas (Athens Mint) |
| Date | Mintage | Grade | Price | Shop | | 1973 - Type A | unknown | Uncirculated | € 1.3 | Buy | | 1973 - Type A | unknown | Extremely Fine | € 0.5 | Buy | | 1973 - Type A | unknown | Very Fine | € 0.1 | Buy | | 1971 | unknown | Uncirculated | € 0.9 | Buy | | 1971 | unknown | Very Fine | € 0.25 | Buy |
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| 50 lepta - King Constantine
Constantine I, King of the Hellenes (2 August 1868 - 11 January 1923) was King of Greece from 1913 to 1917 and from 1920 to 1922. He was Commander – in - Chief of the Hellenic Army during the unsuccessful Greco-Turkish War of 1897 and led the Greek forces ...| Krause - Misler | #88 | | Diameter | 18 mm | | Weight | 2.3 gr | | Composition | Copper 25%, Nickel 75% | | Edge | Milled | | Comments | Engraver: V. Falireas (Prague Mint) |
| Date | Mintage | Grade | Price | Shop | | 1970 | 10,000,000 | Uncirculated | € 2.75 | Buy | | 1966 | 30,000,000 | Uncirculated | € 1.3 | Buy |
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| 50 lepta - King Paul I
Paul I (1901-1964), King of Greece (1947-1964), was the youngest son of King Constantine I. Paul married Princess Frederika of Brunswick in 1938. During most of World War II, when Greece was under German occupation, he was with the Greek government-in-exi ...| Krause - Misler | #80 | | Diameter | 18 mm | | Weight | 2.3 gr | | Composition | Copper 75%, Nickel 25% | | Edge | Milled | | Comments | Engraver: V. Falireas (Parish Mint) |
| Date | Mintage | Grade | Price | Shop | | 1965 | 4,978 | Proof | - | View | | 1964 | 20,000,000 | Uncirculated | € 8.8 | Buy | | 1964 | 20,000,000 | Very Fine | € 1.75 | Buy | | 1962 | 20,500,000 | Very Fine | € 0.75 | Buy | | 1959 | 10,160,000 | Very Fine | € 2.75 | Buy | | 1957 | 5,108,000 | Very Fine | € 8.25 | Buy | | 1954 | 37,228,000 | Very Fine | € 1.1 | Buy |
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The size of the images above are related to the diameter of the coins they represent.
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