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500 Drachmes
| Issuer | Greece |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Currency | Third modern drachma (1954-2001) |
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| Obverse lettering | Αυτόνομη Μοναστική Πολιτεία Αγίου Όρους Αφών Athos ΒΒ 500 Δραχμή |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Greece abandoned the drachma in 2001 when it adopted the euro, so this 2018 piece has no monetary function whatsoever — it was issued purely as a collector item invoking a currency that had been defunct for seventeen years. The drachma name itself carries roughly 2,600 years of continuous use in Greek monetary history, which makes its appearance on a silver-plated copper-nickel souvenir something of an irony.