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2 Euros Platonic Academy
| Issuer | Bank of Greece |
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| Year | 2013 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | The standard €2 reverse design by Luc Luycx depicts a relief map of the European continent without internal borders, set against a lined background suggesting longitude and latitude. The face value '2 EURO' appears to the left of the map in the inner disc, with the designer's initials 'LL' incuse below. The outer ring displays the twelve stars of the European Union arranged in a continuous circle. |
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| Reverse lettering | 2 EURO LL |
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Issued to mark the 2,400th anniversary of the founding of Plato's Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Greece had been under its second EU bailout programme since 2012, and the decision to issue a commemorative €2 coin celebrating philosophical heritage while the country negotiated successive austerity tranches was not lost on commentators at the time.
The Academy itself operated near Athens for over nine centuries until the Byzantine emperor Justinian I ordered its closure in 529 AD.