Brown on multicolored underprint
Obverse: Zeus at left, stadium at bottom center Zeusin Greek mythology is the king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky and thunder. His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull, and oak.
Reverse: Brown and green, woman at left and view of city Hydra on the isle of Hydra
Watermark: Head of Ephebus Ephebos, also anglicised as ephebe, is a Greek word for an adolescent age group or a social status reserved for that age in Antiquity. Its main use was for the members, exclusively from that age group, of an official institution (ephebeia) that saw to building them into citizens, but especially training them as soldiers. |