10 Euros Hippocrates of Cos

Hippocrates of Cos was born around 460 BC on the island of Kos, and ancient sources credit him with separating medicine from religious ritual — a shift that made disease a matter of natural cause rather than divine punishment. Greece's broader "Great Greeks" commemorative silver program, of which this piece is part, ran through the 2000s and 2010s, pairing numismatic issues with figures whose influence extended well beyond Greek borders. The Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of roughly 60 medical texts attributed to his school, remained the foundational reference for European physicians into the 17th century.