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6 Euros International Year of Light and Light-Based Technologies
| Issuer | Bank of Greece |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Value | 6 Euros |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | A stylised incandescent light bulb occupies the central field, rendered in bold relief against a background of finely engraved radiating lines emanating from the centre to the rim, symbolising the emission of light. The filament within the bulb is rendered as a decorative curved element. The circular legend, reading ΔΙΕΘΝΕΣ ΕΤΟΣ ΦΩΤΟΣ & ΤΕΧΝΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ ΦΩΤΟΣ, runs along the entire periphery, with the date 2015 incorporated within the inscription. |
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The International Year of Light was declared by the United Nations to mark several simultaneous scientific anniversaries in 2015, including the 1,000th year since Ibn al-Haytham's foundational work on optics and the 150th anniversary of Maxwell's equations describing electromagnetic radiation. Greece's participation in the commemorative program was modest — the €6 face value sits outside normal circulation denomination structure, placing this squarely as a collector issue with no practical monetary function. KM#274 is among the smaller mintage pieces in the modern Greek commemorative silver program.