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10 Euro Cents 2nd map
| Issuer | Bank of Greece |
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| Year | 2007-2023 |
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| Value | 10 Euro Cents |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features a right-facing portrait effigy of Rigas Fereos (1757–1798), the celebrated Greek Enlightenment poet, revolutionary, and proto-nationalist thinker. His name is inscribed in Greek characters — ΡΗΓΑΣ ΦΕΡΑΙΟΣ — alongside the denomination 10 ΛΕΠΤΑ and the year of issue, with the engraver's initials ΓΣ appearing in the field. The design is framed by the twelve stars of the European Union arranged along the outer border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Greece joined the eurozone on January 1, 2001, but its early euro coinage carried a first-generation map of Europe that excluded the ten countries admitted in the 2004 enlargement. The "2nd map" redesign, rolled out across all eurozone states from 2007 onward, was a direct consequence of that expansion — the original design had become geographically inaccurate within three years of introduction.
Greek euro cent production has been intermittent, with several years seeing no minting at all for circulation, output driven largely by collector sets rather than genuine monetary demand.