HomeFleur-de-coin.comGreek eurosMintmarks FESGreek currency10 euros Greek 10 euros 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: Results 11 - 20 of 38Page 1234 10 euros - Acropolis - Special Olympics 2011 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 432 bC and was originally painted in vivid reds and blues, but the marble pillars gradually lost ... Krause - Mishler #240 Diameter 28.25 mm Weight 9.75 gr Composition Silver .925 (sterling) Edge Five double notches Other information Legend: XIII SPECIAL OLYMPICS W.S.G. ATHENS 2011 - HELLENIC REPUBLIC Year Mintage Price Shop 2011 - Proof 7,500 pieces - View 10 euros - Aeschylus 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 and smaller choral parts, Aeschylus is largely credited with giving Greek tragedy its standard ... Krause - Mishler #247 Diameter 40 mm Weight 34.1 gr Composition Silver .925 (sterling) Edge Plain Year Mintage Price Shop 2010 - Proof 5,000 pieces - View 10 euros - International Year of Biodiversity 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 environments, all over the world. You rely on this diversity of life to provide you with the ... Krause - Mishler #238 Diameter 28.25 mm Weight 9.75 gr Composition Silver .925 (sterling) Edge Spanish flower shape Year Mintage Price Shop 2010 - Proof 5,000 pieces - View 10 euros - Sofia Vembo 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 Victory". Because of her role in the war and her efforts during the Axis occupation, she was awarded ... Krause - Mishler #237 Diameter 28.25 mm Weight 9.75 gr Composition Silver .925 (sterling) Edge Spanish flower shape Year Mintage Price Shop 2010 - Proof 5,000 pieces - View 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 Johannes Kepler's Astronomia nova in the 17th century. Krause - Mishler #228 Diameter 28.25 mm Thickness 1.92 mm Weight 9.75 gr Composition Silver .925 (sterling) Edge Shaped edge with fine scallops (10 scallops) Year Mintage Price Shop 2009 - Proof 5,000 pieces - View 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 popular poetry and expressed in clear and simple language a message of the unity of all people. Krause - Mishler #226 Diameter 28.25 mm Thickness 1.92 mm Weight 9.75 gr Composition Silver .925 (sterling) Edge Shaped edge with fine scallops (10 scallops) Year Mintage Price Shop 2009 - Proof 5,000 pieces - View 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 size, the Greek Government decided in the late 1980s to build the New Acropolis Museum at the base ... Krause - Mishler #225 Diameter 28.25 mm Weight 9.75 gr Composition Silver .925 (sterling) Edge Spanish flower shape Other information Designer: Georgios Stamatopoulos Year Mintage Price Shop 2008 - Proof 10,000 pieces - View 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 graduating he went to France, where he studied philosophy under Henri Bergson. Also well-known in English ... Krause - Mishler #224 Diameter 28.25 mm Thickness 1.92 mm Weight 9.75 gr Composition Silver .925 (sterling) Edge Shaped edge with fine scallops (10 scallops) Other information Designer: Georgios Stamatopoulos Year Mintage Price Shop 2007 - Proof 5,000 pieces - View 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 performances through her vocal and dramatic intensity, transforming what had traditionally been ... Krause - Mishler #223 Diameter 28.25 mm Thickness 1.92 mm Weight 9.75 gr Composition Silver .925 (sterling) Edge Shaped edge with fine scallops (10 scallops) Other information Designer: Georgios Stamatopoulos Year Mintage Price Shop 2007 - Proof 5,000 pieces - View 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, at the borders of Ioannina and Grevena. The tour of the valley, which was named 'warm,' as its ... Krause - Mishler #222 Diameter 40 mm Weight 34 gr Composition Silver .925 (sterling) Edge Smooth Other information Designer: Georgios Stamatopoulos Year Mintage Price Shop 2007 - Proof 5,000 pieces - View Results 11 - 20 of 38Page 1234 Greek Euro Coins 200 euros 100 euros 50 euros 20 euros 10 euros 5 euros 2 euros 1 euro 50 cents 20 cents 10 cents 5 cents 2 cents 1 cent