Catalog
10 Gazettae Denomination in Greek
| Issuer | Septinsular Republic (1800-1814) |
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| Year | 1801 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicts a stylised lion passant guardant, facing the viewer, holding a bundle of arrows beneath a radiate mane, the whole composing a heraldic shield-like emblem emblematic of the Septinsular Republic. The lion is rendered in a bold, somewhat archaic relief characteristic of early 19th-century Greek coinage. A circular legend in Greek characters runs along the coin's periphery, reading ΕΠΤΑΝΗΣΟΣ ΠΟΛΙΤΕΙΑ (Septinsular State). The field surrounding the central device is plain, and the coin's edge shows a beaded border. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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The Septinsular Republic — the first nominally self-governing Greek state in the modern era, established under Russian and Ottoman joint protection after Napoleon ceded the Ionian Islands in 1797 — had an urgent practical problem: the islands ran on a chaotic mixture of Venetian, Ottoman, and French coinage, none of it standardized. The gazetta was the solution, drawing its name from the small Venetian coin long familiar to islanders.
KM#4 is the denomination struck with its value rendered in Greek script rather than Latin characters — a deliberate political choice for a republic whose constitution was the first modern document drafted in the Greek language.