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10 Euros Mount Olympus National Park - Four Titans
| Issuer | Bank of Greece |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Engraver(s) | G. Stamatopoulos |
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| Obverse lettering | ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ 10 ΕΥΡΩ (Translation: HELLENIC REPUBLIC 10 EURO) |
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| Edge | Smooth with ten indentations (Spanish flower) |
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Part of a Greek national parks series issued in the mid-2000s, this coin commemorates Mount Olympus — designated Greece's first national park in 1938 and a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 1981. The "Four Titans" theme draws on Hesiod's Theogony, in which the Titans preceded the Olympian gods as rulers of the cosmos before being overthrown by Zeus and cast into Tartarus. Mount Olympus itself, at 2,917 meters, was the mythological seat of that successor pantheon — making the pairing of Titan iconography with this specific peak an intentional theological irony the series designers almost certainly chose deliberately.