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10 Euros George Nicolas Papanicolaou
| Issuer | Bank of Greece |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Weight | 9.75 g |
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| Obverse lettering | ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ 10 ΕΥΡΩ |
| Reverse description | A three-quarter portrait of Georgios N. Papanicolaou (1883–1962), the renowned Greek physician and pioneer of cytology, is depicted in the right field, shown wearing a laboratory coat and working at a microscope, with laboratory glassware visible before him. The bilingual legend ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΣ Ν. ΠΑΠΑΝΙΚΟΛΑΟΥ arcs along the upper left in Greek, with GEORGIOS N. PAPANICOLAOU inscribed in Latin script below it, accompanied by his birth and death years 1883·1962. The date 2012 appears in the left field beside a small mint mark. The same lobed decorative border seen on the obverse frames the reverse. The engraver's initials are visible in the lower right of the field. |
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Issued the year Greece was enduring its most severe phase of IMF-ECB-EU bailout austerity, this commemorative honored Georgios Papanikolaou, the Greek-born physician who developed the Pap smear while working at Cornell University in the 1920s. His cytological screening test, published in full in 1943, is credited with dramatically reducing cervical cancer mortality across the twentieth century. The Bank of Greece continued producing silver commemoratives even as the country negotiated successive debt restructuring agreements — a quietly defiant exercise of issuing-authority function during a period of acute fiscal constraint.