Greece – 10 Euro Silver Proof, Hippocrates of Kos, 2013

Silver coin dedicated to Greek culture, Hippocrates of Kos, the Physician, 2013. Ag 925, weight 34.1g, diametre 40mm. Μintage 1,000 items in Proof Quality.

The obverse features a portrait of Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.), while the reverse features Asclepius healing patients. Hippocrates of Kos is regarded as the father of Western medicine for basing the art of healing on rational principles and liberating it from divine causality and superstition. Continue reading

Greece – 5 Euro, Constantine Cavafy, 2013

Collector coin 5 Euro, 2013 commemorating the 150 years from the birth and the 80 years from the death of Greek famous poet Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933), offered in blister.

Constantine Cavafy is one of modern Greece’s most important poets and perhaps the best known and most translated. He was born and lived in cosmopolitan Alexandria, then – like in Hellenistic times – a crossroads of cultures. He wrote relatively few and short poems, which he worked and reworked with minute care. He used austere means of expression and mostly free verse, far from the conventions of his time, with a deeply personal style and idiosyncratic language, between the scholarly katharevousa and the demotic. Distinctive features of his poetry are dramatic style, irony, sensuality and philosophical contemplation, often inspired by historical figures and events.

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Greece – Euro coins Official PROOF Set 2013

The official Euro coin set of Greece in PROOF quality, including the 8 Euro coins, plus the two commemorative 2 Euro coins “100 years from the union of Crete with Greece” and “2,400 years from the founding of Plato’s Academy”.

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Finland – 2 Euro, 125th Anniversary of the birth of F.E. Sillanpaa, 2013

Frans Eemil Sillanpaa (1888 – 1964) was one of the most famous Finnish writers. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1939 for his deep understanding of his country’s peasantry and the exquisite art with which he has portrayed their way of life and their relationship with Nature.

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Greece – 50 Euro mini gold, Ancient Tiryns, 2013

Stele of Grave Circle A Mycenae

Stele of Grave Circle A Mycenae

Collector gold coin 50 Euro dedicated to the archeological site of Tiryns, which has been listed as a World Heritage Site by Unesco.

Both the obverse and the reverse of the coin feature Mycenaean decorative motifs. Tiryns is the second largest Mycenaean acropolis, after Mycenae, in the eastern Peloponnesian region of Argolis. The hill of Tiryns was first inhabited in the Neolithic age. The settlement grew and reached its apogee in the Mycenaean Age (1600-1200 B.C.).

Greece – 50 Euro mini gold 2013 dedicated to Ancient Tiryns. Au 100% – Weight 1g, diametre 14mm. Mintage 1.000 coins. Quality: proof

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Greece – 200 Euro Gold Proof, Hippocrates of Kos, 2013

Gold coin 200 Euro dedicated to Greek culture, Hippocrates of Kos, the Physician, 2013. Au 916.7 – weight 7.99g – diametre 22.10mm. Μintage 1.200 items in Proof Quality.

The obverse features a portrait of Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.), while the reverse features Asclepius healing patients. Continue reading