Live auction - fwo_468368 - GREECE - KINGDOM OF GREECE – OTTO 20 Drachmes 1833
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| Estimate : | 1 200 € |
| Price : | 900 € |
| Maximum bid : | 960 € |
| End of the sale : | 06 March 2018 18:39:46 |
| bidders : | 3 bidders |
Type : 20 Drachmes
Date: 1833
Quantity minted : 18000
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 5,76 g.
Edge : cannelée
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
La pièce présente une usure normale de circulation
Obverse
Obverse legend : (LÉGENDE GRECQUE).
Obverse description : Tête nue d'Othon Ier à gauche.
Obverse legend : OQON BASILEUS THS ELLADOS.
Obverse translation : (Othon roi des l'Hellènes).
Reverse
Reverse legend : À L'EXERGUE
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Reverse description : Écu couronné entre deux branches d'olivier.
Reverse legend : 20 DRACMAI/ 1833.
Reverse translation : (20 drachmes).
Commentary
Ce type ne fut frappé que pour le millésime 1833 dans les circonstances difficiles que rencontrait la Grèce à l'époque. Le chiffre de fabrication de cette monnaie est controversée mais nous citons celui qui est le plus généralement accepté.
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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