fwo_1034774 - GREECE - KINGDOM OF GREECE – OTTO 1/2 Drachme 1834 Paris - A
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Type : 1/2 Drachme
Date: 1834
Mint name / Town : Paris - A
Quantity minted : -
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,14 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).
Commentary
Pour l'atelier de Paris, ce type ne fut frappé que pour le millésime 1834. Le choix par la Grèce d'un atelier monétaire étranger pour ses frappes en argent s'explique à l'examen des productions locales de 5 et 10 lepta en bronze, dont la qualité rappelle plutôt les frappes de la période révolutionnaire française..
For the Paris workshop, this type was only struck for the 1834 vintage. Greece's choice of a foreign mint for its silver strikes can be explained by examining local production of 5 and 10 lepta in bronze, the quality of which is more reminiscent of the strikes of the French revolutionary period.
For the Paris workshop, this type was only struck for the 1834 vintage. Greece's choice of a foreign mint for its silver strikes can be explained by examining local production of 5 and 10 lepta in bronze, the quality of which is more reminiscent of the strikes of the French revolutionary period.
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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