The Parthenon surrounded with the value and the country name
Obverse script
Greek
Obverse lettering
ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ
ΔΡΑΧΜΑΙ
20
1978 (Translation: Republic of Greece Drachmai)
Reverse description
The portrait of Pericles (ca. 495 – 429 BC), a prominent and influential statesman, orator, and general of Athens in the city`s Golden Age, facing left surrounded with his name in Greek (ΠΕΡΙΚΛΗΣ)
Reverse script
Greek
Reverse lettering
ΠΕΡΙΚΛΗΣ (Translation: Pericles)
Edge
Inscripted
Mint
Mintage
1976 - Type A: triangle in the pediment - 53 167 500 1978 - Proof - 20 000 1978 - Type B: circle in the pediment - 65 353 000 1980 - Type B: circle in the pediment - 17 562 000