Hestia is the rarest of the twelve Olympians on Greek coinage — her cult had no temple in Athens and she received no festival, which made her an unusual but deliberate choice for a modern numismatic issue. The Bank of Greece has issued collector gold in this format as part of an ongoing Olympian gods series, with each release tied to a specific deity.
The .9999 fineness places this above the traditional .900 gold standard used for Greek circulation coinage of the 19th and early 20th centuries — a specification chosen specifically for the bullion and collector market rather than any circulating monetary function.
Hestia is the rarest of the twelve Olympians on Greek coinage — her cult had no temple in Athens and she received no festival, which made her an unusual but deliberate choice for a modern numismatic issue. The Bank of Greece has issued collector gold in this format as part of an ongoing Olympian gods series, with each release tied to a specific deity.
The .9999 fineness places this above the traditional .900 gold standard used for Greek circulation coinage of the 19th and early 20th centuries — a specification chosen specifically for the bullion and collector market rather than any circulating monetary function.