fwo_674722 - GREECE - KINGDOM OF GREECE – OTTO 1/2 Drachme 1833
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Price : 150.00 €
Type : 1/2 Drachme
Date: 1833
Quantity minted : 900000
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,24 g.
Edge : cannelée
Rarity : R1
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête nue d'Othon Ier à droite ; K au-dessous.
Obverse legend : OQON BASILEUS THS ELLADOS
Obverse translation : (Othon roi de l'Hellènes).
Reverse
Reverse legend : À L'EXERGUE
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Reverse description : Écu couronné entre deux branches d'olivier.
Reverse legend : 1/2 DRACMH
Reverse translation : (1/2 drachme).
Historical background
GREECE - KINGDOM OF GREECE – OTTO
(1832-1862)
Otto I of Wittelbasch (06/1/1815-07/26/1867) was the youngest son of Ludwig I of Bavaria (1825-1848). The London Protocol had guaranteed the independence of Greece and the Treaty of Munich, of May 7, 1832, gave the throne to Otho I. Badly surrounded, badly advised, Germanophile, Otho ends up alienating the Greeks. At the end of the Crimean War, at the Treaty of Paris in 1856, he was clumsy and did not ask for territorial compensation for Greece. He abdicated in 1862.
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