Editing Greek euro coins

{{Short description|Designs of Greek currency}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}
'''Greek euro coins''' feature a unique design for each of the eight coins. They were all designed by Georgios Stamatopoulos with the minor coins depicting Greek ships, the middle ones portraying famous Greeks and the two large denominations showing images of Greek history and [[mythology]]. All designs feature the [[European symbols|12 stars of the EU]], the year of imprint and a tiny symbol of the [[Bank of Greece]]. Uniquely, the value of the coins is expressed on the national side in the Greek alphabet, as well as being on the common side in the Roman alphabet. The euro cent is known as the ''[[Greek lepton|lepto]]'' (λεπτό; plural ''lepta'', λεπτά) in Greek, a name which has also been used for the {{frac|1|100}} denominations of the preceding currencies of the Greek state, the [[Phoenix (currency)|phoenix]] and [[Modern drachma|drachma]].

[[Greece]] did not enter the [[Eurozone]] until 2001 and was not able to start minting coins as early as the other eleven member states, so a number of coins circulated in 2002 were not minted in [[Athens]] but in [[Finland]] (€1 and €2 – mint mark ''S''), France (1c, 2c, 5c, 10c and 50c – mint mark ''F'') and Spain (20c – mint mark ''E''). The coins minted in Athens for the euro introduction in 2002, as well as all the subsequent Greek euro coins, carry only the Greek mint mark.

==Greek euro design==
For [[Euro coins#Depiction of euro coinage - Reverse side|images of the common side]] and a detailed description of the coins, see [[euro coins]].
{{Coin image box 8 singles
|header = Depiction of Greek euro coinage <nowiki>|</nowiki> Obverse side
|column_1_width = 150
|column_2_width = 167
|column_3_width = 157
|denom_1 = €0.01
|denom_2 = €0.02
|denom_3 = €0.05
|image_1 = 
|image_2 = 
|image_3 = 
|caption_1 = An Athenian [[trireme]] of the 5th century BC
|caption_2 = A [[corvette]] of the early 19th century
|caption_3 = A modern [[Tanker (ship)|tanker]], symbol of Greek enterprise
|denom_4 = €0.10
|denom_5 = €0.20
|denom_6 = €0.50
|image_4 = 
|image_5 = 
|image_6 = 
|caption_4 = [[Rigas Feraios]], Greek writer and revolutionary
|caption_5 = [[Ioannis Kapodistrias]], Greece's first statesman
|caption_6 = [[Eleftherios Venizelos]], Greek politician
|denom_7 = €1.00
|denom_8 = €2.00
|header_9 = €2 Coin Edge
|box_9 = The words ''Hellenic Republic'' in Greek script (ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ)
|image_7 = 
|image_8 = 
|caption_7 = Picture of a 5th-century BC Athenian [[tetradrachm]] (a coin in a coin)
|caption_8 = The abduction of [[Europa (consort of Zeus)|Europa]] by [[Zeus]] in the form of a bull
}}

==Circulating mintage quantities==
The following table shows the mintage quantity for all Greek euro coins, per denomination, per year (the numbers are represented in millions).<ref>{{cite web | publisher=Henning Agt | url=http://www.euro-auflagen.de/index.php?lang=en | title=Circulating Mintage quantities | access-date=2008-08-22 | archive-date=31 December 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081231140006/http://www.euro-auflagen.de/index.php?lang=en | url-status=dead }}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
!align=left width=110px|Face Value
!align=left width=70px|€0.01
!align=left width=70px|€0.02
!align=left width=70px|€0.05
!align=left width=70px|€0.10
!align=left width=70px|€0.20
!align=left width=70px|€0.50
!align=left width=70px|€1.00
!align=left width=70px|€2.00
!align=left width=70px|€2.00 CC
|-
!|2002
||100.94
||175.94
||210.94
||138.94
||208.94
||92.94
||61.44
||75.34
||*
|-
!|2002 EFS
||15.0
||18.0
||90.0
||100.0
||120.0
||70.0
||50.0
||70.0
||*
|-
!|2003
||35.1
||9.4
||0.6507
||0.5007
||0.7007
||0.6007
||11.60
||0.4507
||*
|-
!|2004
||49.97
||24.97
||0.22
||9.97
||0.47
||0.47
||9.97
||*
||34.5
|-
!|2005
||14.95
||14.95
||0.95
||24.95
||0.95
||0.95
||9.95
||0.95
||*
|-
!|2006
||44.95
||44.95
||49.95
||44.95
||0.95
||0.95
||9.95
||0.95
||*
|-
!|2007
||60.03
||25.0
||55.0
||60.04
||0.95
||0.95
||24.17
||*
||3.978549
|-
!|2008
||24.0
||68.0
||50.0
||40.0
||20.0
||10.0
||4.0
||1.0
||*
|-
!|2009
||49.975
||15.975
||37.975
||45.975
||23.975
||6.975
||17.975
||0.975
||3.9925
|-
!|2010
||27.0
||31.0
||5.0
||5.0
||12.0
||6.0
||11.0
||1.0
||2.4925
|-
!|2011
||35.0
||47.0
||34.0
||36.0
||1.0
||7.0
||1.0
||*
||0.995
|-
!|2012
||48.0
||34.0
||5.0
||*
||*
||*
||*
||*
||1.0
|-
!|2013
||<sup>**</sup>
||<sup>**</sup>
||<sup>**</sup>
||<sup>**</sup>
||<sup>**</sup>
||<sup>**</sup>
||<sup>**</sup>
||<sup>**</sup>
||<sup>**</sup>
|-
| align=left colspan=10 |
<nowiki>*</nowiki> No coins were minted that year for that denomination<br />
<nowiki>**</nowiki> Data not available yet<br />
<nowiki>***</nowiki> Small quantities minted for sets only
|-
|}

==Greek starter kit==
{{main|Euro starter kits}}
In 2001, the [[Bank of Greece]] issued starter kits for the introduction of the Euro.

==Identifying marks==
{{main|Identifying marks on euro coins}}

{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible" style="text-align: center;"
| width=150px | '''National Identifier'''
| width=200px | ''None yet''
|-
|| '''Mint Mark'''
||[[File:Euro mintmark greece.jpg|20px]]
|-
|| '''Engravers Initials'''
||[[File:Euro.inscription.initial.greece.388.jpg|30px]] <br /> ΓΣ
|-
|| '''€2 Edge inscription'''
||[[File:Edge greece s01.jpg|266x266px]] [[File:Edge greece s01.jpg|266x266px]]
|-
|}

==Commemorative coins==
{{main|Euro gold and silver commemorative coins (Greece)}}
{{see also|Euro gold and silver commemorative coins}}
Greece has a good collection of euro commemorative coins, mainly in silver although a few coins have also been minted in gold. Their face value range from €10 to €200. This is mainly done as a legacy of an old national practice of minting gold and silver coins. These coins are not really intended to be used as means of payment, so generally they do not circulate. Here you can find some samples:
<gallery>
File:2003 Greece 200 Euro 75 anniversary of Bank of Greece front.jpg|Gold, 200 euro, 75th anniversary of Bank of Greece (2003)
File:2006 Greece 10 Euro Patras front.jpg|Silver, 10 euro, Patras European Capital of Culture (2006)
File:2008 Greece 10 euro Acropolis back.jpg|Silver, 10 euro, Acropolis Museum (2008)
File:€2 commemorative coin Greece 2007 TOR.jpg|50th Anniversary of the Signature of the [[Treaty of Rome]] (2007)
</gallery>

==References==
{{reflist|30em}}

==External links==
{{Portal|Greece|Money|Numismatics}}
*[https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/coins/html/gr.en.html European Central Bank – Greece]

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