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100 Drachmai National Revolution, Regime of the Colonels
| Issuer | Kingdom of Greece |
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| Year | 1970 |
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| Diameter | 35 mm |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
| Obverse lettering | 21 ΑΠΡΙΛΙΟΥ 1967 |
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Issued by the military junta that seized power in April 1967, this coin was part of a deliberate propaganda campaign by the Papadopoulos regime to project legitimacy through numismatic commemoratives. The "National Revolution" framing was the junta's own term for the coup. Greece was suspended from the Council of Europe that same year the coin was struck, following continued international pressure over the abolition of parliamentary government and documented use of torture against political detainees.
The monarchy itself was already a fiction by 1970 — King Constantine II had fled to Rome in December 1967 after a failed counter-coup, leaving the junta ruling in his name.