Edge Plain
Face value 10 Drachmes
Grade VF+
Metal Copper-Nickel
Mint Athens, Greece
Year of issue 1976
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Issuer: Greece
Period: Third Hellenic Republic (1974-Date)
Type: Standard circulation coin
Years: 1976 (1976-1980)
Value: 10 Drachmai (10)
Currency: Third modern drachma (1954-2001)
Metal: Copper-Nickel
Mintage: 76,816,000
Grade: XF
Weight: 7.4 g
Diameter: 25.6 mm
Thickness: 1.95 mm
Mint: Athens, Greece
Orientation: Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized: yes, 02-28-2002
References: KM# 119, Schön# 62
Obverse:
The portrait in left profile of Democritus (460 - 370 BC), a Greek philosopher who developed the atomic theory of the universe surrounded with his name in Greek (ΔΗΜΟΚΡΙΤΟΣ).
Script: Greek.
Lettering: ΔΗΜΟΚΡΙΤΟΣ
Translation: Democritus
Engraver: L. Orphanos.
Reverse:
An atom surrounded by the value and the country name.
Script: Greek.
Lettering:
ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ
ΔΡΑΧΜΑΙ
19 10 76
Translation:
Republic of Greece
10 Drachmai
1976
Edge:
Smooth.
Mint:
The National Mint of the Bank of Greece (Νομισματοκοπείο - ΙΕΤΑ), Athens, Greece (1972-date).
Reference : KM# 119, Schön# 62
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Collection : Kingdom of Greece - Modern Greece