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1/4 Drachma - Otto
| Issuer | Greece |
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| Year | 1833-1846 |
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| Value | 1/4 Drachma |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Athens Mint, Greece (1838-1855) Munich Mint, Germany (1158-date) Monnaie de Paris, Paris (and Pessac starting 1973), France (864-date) |
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Otto of Wittelsbach arrived in Greece in 1833 as a seventeen-year-old Bavarian prince installed by the protecting powers — Britain, France, and Russia — after the assassination of Ioannis Kapodistrias left the new state without leadership. The early coinage issued under his regency was designed and largely administered by Bavarian officials, with dies prepared in Munich before production shifted to the Aegina and later Athens mints.
The fractional silver pieces of this series saw limited practical circulation; the Greek economy of the 1830s ran heavily on foreign coin, and small domestic fractions were frequently hoarded rather than spent.