50 Drachmai - George I Pattern

The 1875 Greek 50 drachmai pattern was never adopted for circulation, almost certainly because Greece was stretching its finances thin managing the national debt inherited from the independence struggle and subsequent loans from the protecting powers. The Latin Monetary Union, which Greece had joined in 1868, set precise standards for gold coinage, and this pattern appears to conform to those specifications — yet it went no further than the trial stage.

KM#E14 is among the rarest documented Greek pattern issues of the George I reign.