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Greek Drachma (Drachmai, Drachmes, Drachmae); Gazetta
(Gazettae); Lepton (Lepta); Obol (Oboli); Para (Paras); Phoenix Greek
States Cistophorous (Cistophori)
Currency Collections, Commemorative coins, Commemoratives, Mint and Proof
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Ancient Greek coins were mainly issued in
gold, silver and Bronze and
are divided into three periods, the Archaic,
the Classical and the Hellenistic.The Archaic period extends from the
introduction of coinage until the Persian Wars The Classical period
that lasted until the conquests of Alexander the Great, which began the
Hellenistic period, extending until the Roman absorption of the Greek world
in the 1st century BCE. The Greeks cities continued to produce their own
coins for several more centuries under Roman rule, called Roman provincial
coins.Even
Roman nobles collected Greek coins.and European Greek Coins - Macedonian
Greek Coins- African and Asian Greek Coins -Indo Greek Coins - Greek
Imperial Coins - for the beautiful design, that continue to fascinate
collectors world wide.
Archaic Origins
Italy - Sicily - Greece - Illyria to Euboia - Athens - Corinth-
Megaris to Aegean Islands -
Thrace - Byzantium - Istros - Maroneia - Thasos -
Macedonia - Black Sea Area - Olbia - Pontos - West Asia Minor - Caria -
Ionia - Colophon - Ephesus - Lesbos - Lydia - Mysia - TroasS. & Central Asia
Minor - Cilicia - Lycia - Pamphylia - Cyprus -Persia & Mesopotamia -Syria -
Arabia - Phoenicia - Judaea & Palestine-Egypt - North Africa - Hellenistic
Monarchies -Alexander the Great - Macedonian Kingdom - Kingdom of Thrace -
Kingdom of Epeiros -Kingdom of Bithynia - Seleucid Kingdom - Pergamene
Kingdom -Pontic Kingdom - Bosphoros - Kingdom - Cappadocian Kingdom -
Kingdom of Paeonia - Parthian Empire -Kingdom of Characene - Kingdom of
Persis - Kingdom of Edessa - Indo - Greek Kingdom - Nabataean -Kingdom -
Judean Kingdom- Ptolemaic Egypt - Greek Imperial - Hispania to Crete -
Dacia & Moesia - Macedonia-Thrace - Asia Minor & Cyprus - Mesopotamia &
Babylonia - Phoenicia - Decapolis, Arabia & Syria -Judaea & Palestine -Egypt
& North Africa
The first issue of modern Greek
coins consisted of holed, aluminium 5, 10 and 20 lepta, cupro-nickel 50
lepta, 1, 2, 5 and 10 drachmae and silver 20 drachmae pieces. In mthe
seventies unholed, aluminium 10 and 20 lepta, nickel-brass 50 lepta, 1
and 2 drachmae and cupro-nickel 20 drachmae were issued followed by
Cupro-nickel 50 drachmae and nickel-brass 50 drachmas coins , copper 1 and 2
drachmas and nickel-brass 20 and 100 drachmas . In 2000 a set of 6 Olympic
games themed 500 drachmas coins was issued.
Coins in circulation at the time of the adoption of the euro were 1
, 2 ,5 ,10 ,20 ,50 ,100 and 500 drachmas .
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