1/2 Drachma - Otto Pattern

Otto's Bavarian regency government spent much of the 1830s and early 1840s wrestling with the question of a coherent Greek coinage system, and several pattern issues from this period never advanced to full production. This 1842 half-drachma sits in that liminal space — struck for official inspection rather than circulation, part of the broader Bavarian-influenced monetary reorganization that followed Greek independence.

KM#Pn14 is rarely encountered, with surviving examples almost certainly traceable to the original presentation strikings.