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20 Lepta
| Issuer | Greece |
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| Year | 1976-1978 |
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| Engraver(s) | L. Orphanos |
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| Obverse description | The national arms of the Hellenic Republic occupy the central field: a blue escutcheon charged with a white Greek cross, the shield fully encircled by two crossed olive-laurel branches. The legend ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ (Hellenic Republic) arcs around the upper periphery, with the date flanked by raised dots inscribed along the lower portion of the legend. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Greece's mid-1970s coinage was shaped almost entirely by the collapse of the military junta in 1974 and the restoration of democratic government under Konstantinos Karamanlis. This denomination was part of a broader reissue of the lepta series that followed, reestablishing civilian monetary authority after seven years of the Colonels' regime. The aluminium-magnesium composition had been in use for small Greek denominations since the 1950s and was retained here for cost reasons as the economy adjusted to post-junta instability.
The series ran only three years before metrication pressures and inflation rendered the 20-lepta effectively worthless in daily commerce.