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20 Drachmai - George II Restoration of the Monarchy, Pattern
| Issuer | Greece |
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| Year | 1940 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
| Obverse lettering | ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΣ Β! ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΤΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ 25 ΝΟΕΜΒΡΙΟΥ 1935 (Translation: George II King of the Greeks 25th of November 1935) |
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Greece's 1940 coinage program was effectively stillborn. The Metaxas dictatorship had been issuing aluminum-bronze circulating coinage through the late 1930s, but by mid-1940 the Italian invasion had upended any plans for new production. This copper pattern for a 20 Drachmai piece commemorating George II's 1935 restoration — itself the product of a rigged plebiscite that returned the king after a decade of republican government — never advanced beyond the trial stage.
KM#Pn59 is one of several pattern strikes documented from this period, almost certainly produced at the Athens mint before operations were disrupted by occupation.