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1 Lepton
| Issuer | Greece |
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| Year | 1844-1846 |
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| Weight | 1.299 g |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears the quartered royal arms of Greece — a shield divided into four quarters, the upper-left and lower-right quarters bearing horizontal lines, the upper-right and lower-left quarters plain — surmounted by a large royal crown with ornate detailing. The circular legend ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΟΝ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ (Kingdom of Greece) runs along the periphery, divided by the crown at top. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Greece's earliest copper coinage under Otto I was struck at the Athens mint, which had only recently been established — the country had no functioning mint infrastructure at independence and relied on foreign facilities through the 1830s. These leptons circulated in a kingdom still consolidating its monetary system after decades of Ottoman rule had left no coherent numismatic baseline to build from. The 1844 issues coincide with the constitutional crisis that forced Otto to accept a parliamentary government under military pressure.