Catalog
5 Lepta Pattern
| Issuer | Kingdom of Greece |
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| Year | 1833 |
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| Weight | 6.71 g |
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| Obverse lettering | ZUR KÖN. MÜNZE IN GRIECHENLAND. (Translation: For the Royal Mint in Greece.) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Greece's first coinage as an independent kingdom was entrusted to the Bavarian mint at Munich — a consequence of Otto of Wittelsbach's installation as king in 1832. These 1833 patterns were produced as the new government wrestled with establishing a monetary system from scratch, having inherited an economy devastated by over a decade of war against Ottoman rule. The Phoenix coinage of Kapodistrias had already come and gone; this series was Greece's second attempt at sovereign currency in fewer than ten years.
As a pattern, this piece never entered circulation. The Karamitsos reference places it among a small group of trial strikings evaluated before the confirmed series was approved.