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5 Lepta - George I 2nd portrait
| Uitgever | Greece |
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| Jaar | 1878-1882 |
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| Waarde | 5 Lepta (0.05) |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Bare-headed effigy of King George I facing left, rendered in the mature second portrait style engraved by Jean-Auguste Barre. The king's hair is naturalistically styled with fine striated detail, and the truncation of the neck is cleanly cut. The engraver's signature BARRE appears on the truncation, with the date 1882 inscribed in the exergue below. A circular Greek legend surrounds the effigy, set within a beaded border. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΣ Α! ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΤΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ ΒΑΡΡΕ 1882 (Translation: GEORGE I KING OF THE GREEKS BARRE 1882) |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
Greece's small bronze coinage of this period was minted in Paris, bearing the privy marks of the Monnaie de Paris — a contractual arrangement that reflected the country's limited domestic minting capacity decades after independence. The "2nd portrait" designation distinguishes this type from the earlier George I issues by a revised effigy, a change made at the dies level rather than through any formal royal decree or commemorative intention.
By the early 1880s, these five-lepta pieces were so undervalued in daily commerce that hoarding was essentially pointless, which paradoxically drove survival rates down — spent hard and lost often.