v44_1155 - GREECE - KINGDOM OF GREECE – OTTO 2 lepta, 1er type 1838
MONNAIES 44 (2010)
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 600.00 €
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Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 600.00 €
unsold lot
Type : 2 lepta, 1er type
Date: 1838
Quantity minted : 701000
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18,59 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,72 g.
Edge : cannelée
Coments on the condition:
Usure régulière de circulation sur les reliefs. La monnaie présente quelques taches au revers mais elle conserve des traces de son rouge d’origine. Exemplaire agréable avec une jolie patine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Écu couronné.
Obverse legend : BASILEIA THS ELLADOS
Obverse translation : (Roi des Hellènes).
Reverse
Reverse description : dans une couronne composite.
Reverse legend : 2/ LEPTA/ 1838
Reverse translation : (2 lepta).
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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