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500 Drachmes Common Market Membership
| Issuer | Greece |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Weight | 13 g |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
| Obverse lettering | ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ ΣΤΑΘΜΟΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΠΟΡΕΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΕΘΝΟΥΣ Κ. ΚΑΡΑΜΑΝΛΗΣ ΔΡΑΧΜΕΣ 500 28 ΜΑΙΟΥ 1979 10ο ΜΕΛΟΣ Ε.Ο.Κ. (Translation: GREEK DEMOCRACY MILESTONE TO THE PROGRESS OF THE NATION K. KARAMANLIS 500 DRACHMES 28th OF MAY 1979 10th MEMBER OF E.E.C.) |
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Greece acceded to the European Economic Community on January 1, 1981, but the negotiations that made it possible were concluded in May 1979 — the occasion this coin was struck to mark. It was the first southern European nation admitted to what had been, to that point, an exclusively northwestern bloc, and the political significance in Athens was considerable given that accession came just five years after the collapse of the military junta.