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2 Euros Andreas Kalvos
| Issuer | Bank of Greece |
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| Year | 2019 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | The common reverse of the standard European 2 Euro series, designed by Luc Luycx, displays a stylised relief map of the European continent extending beyond the coin's inner field, without internal borders. The face value '2 EURO' appears to the left of the map in the inner circle, with the designer's initials 'LL' visible. The outer ring is adorned with the twelve stars of the European Union flag. |
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Andreas Kalvos spent most of his adult life in exile — in Italy, Switzerland, and England — yet produced the two collections of odes, published in 1824 and 1826, that secured his place in the Greek national canon. He then effectively abandoned poetry altogether, moved to England permanently, and spent his final decades teaching Greek in Corfu and later in Louth, Lincolnshire, where he died in 1869. Greece issued this coin to mark the 150th anniversary of his death.