10 DIFFERENT COINS FROM THE HELLENIC REPUBLIC. Old collectible coins were picked before Euro from these numismatic periods: King Paul I (1954 - 1965), King Constantine II (1966 - 1973), Junta (1973), Third Hellenic Republic (1976-2002). Each bag may have different combinations of coins. You may receive Greek coins from 50 lepta to 100 drachmas. On the Greek coins, you may find interesting symbols: a Little owl (the symbol of goddess Athena which was first depicted on an ancient Greek tetradrachm), a corvette, crossed rifles, canons, anchors, boats, a Pegasus (the mythological winged horse), a Phoenix rising from its flames and the Parthenon. There may be portraits of famous persons:
Aristotle (a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great);
Democritus (a Greek philosopher who developed the atomic theory of the universe);
Pericles (a prominent and influential statesman, orator, and general of Athens in the city's Golden Age);
Dionysios Solomos (a poet from Zakynthos author of the Greek national anthem);
Paul of Greece (King of Greece from 1947 until his death in 1964);
Constantine II (reigned as the King of Greece, from 1964 until the abolition of the monarchy in 1973);
Constantine Kanaris (Canaris was a Greek Prime Minister, admiral, and politician who in his youth was a freedom fighter in the Greek War of Independence);
Laskarina Bouboulina (Greek naval commander, the heroine of the Greek War of Independence in 1821, and allegedly first woman-admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy);
Georgios Karaiskakis (a famous Greek military commander and a leader of the Greek War of Independence);
Manto Mavrogenous (a Greek heroine of the Greek War of Independence. A rich woman, she spent all her fortune for the Hellenic cause. Under her encouragement, her European friends contributed money and guns to the revolution).