Greece. 2 drachmas Greek Coin 1973 {B} UNC, OWL PHOENIX, Greek Military JUNTA

Description

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GREECE.
2
DRACHMAS
of  YEAR :
1973 (Type : B}
UNC
irculated
Greek coin in Drachmas.
Mintage :
40.390.000
GREEK COIN [
KM#: 108
]
,
Diameter (mm):
24.0
Weight (g):
6.10
Composition:
Brass - Nickel
Edge:
Milled
Engravers
:
I. Stinis, N. Perantinos (Athens Mint)
[
Greek   Military  - Junda
]
It is the coin
:
O W L   -   P H O E N I X
Description:
The owl was the symbol of goddess Athena and it was first depicted on an ancient Greek tetradrachm (5th century b.C.). Athena was patron of the crafts, wisdom and battle. She became the patron goddess of the city of Athens, in a competition with Poseidon. They agreed that each would give the Athenians one gift and the Athenians would choose whichever gift they preferred. Poseidon struck the ground with his trident and a spring sprung up, the water ...
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In Greek
and Roman mythology
,
Glaucus
(Greek
:
Γλαῦκος
,
Glaukos
, "glaring (eyes)"; compare Greek
glaux
,
owl
, of the same origin) is the symbolic
Owl of Athena
or Minerva
, respectively. Often referred to as the "
owl of Athena
" or "
owl of Minerva
", it accompanies Minerva
in Roman myths
, seen as a symbol of wisdom
because the owl is capable of seeing even in the dark and of vigilance because the owl is awake at night.
The nineteenth-century idealist philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
famously noted that "the owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk" — meaning that philosophy comes to understand a historical condition just as it passes away. Philosophy cannot be prescriptive because it understands only in hindsight.
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Greek military junta of 1967–1974
The Phoenix
rising from its flames and the silhouette of the soldier bearing a rifle with fixed bayonet was the emblem of the Junta. On the header the word
Greece
(Ελλας) and on the footer 21 April 1967, the date of the coup d' état, can be seen in Greek.
The Phoenix
and the silhouette of the soldier bearing a bayonetted rifle was the emblem of the Junta.
The
Greek military junta of 1967–1974
, alternatively "
The Regime of the Colonels
" (Greek
:
Το καθεστώς τωνΣυνταγματαρχών
,
To kathestos ton Syntagmatarhon
), or in Greece "
The Junta
", (
English pronunciation:
/ˈdʒʌntə/
or
/ˈhʊntə/,
Greek Χούντα, [xuda]
) and "The Seven Years" (Greek:
Η Επταετία
,
I eptaetía
) are terms used to refer to a series of right-wing military governments that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974. Rule by the Greek military started in the morning of 21 April 1967, with a coup d' etat led by a group of colonels, and ended in July 1974.
Georgios Papadopoulos
President of the Hellenic Republic
Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos (Greek
:
Γεώργιος Παπαδόπουλος
) (5 May 1919 – 27 June 1999) was the head of the military coup d'état that took place in Greece on 21 April 1967 and leader of the military government that ruled the country from 1967 to 1974. Papadopoulos was a Colonel of Artillery. During World War II, he had initially fought against the Italian 1940 invasion and then he became a Nazi collaborator in the Security Battalions, and in the postwar years he received intelligence training in the US and became a CIA agent. He held dictatorial power in
Greece
from 1967-1973, until he was himself overthrown by his co-conspirator Dimitrios Ioannidis. It has been claimed that Papadopoulos was the first CIA agent to govern a Western European country.
Early life and military career
Papadopoulos was born in Elaiohori
, a small village in the Prefecture of Achaea in Peloponnese
to local school teacher Christos Papadopoulos and his wife Chrysoula. He was the eldest son and had two brothers, Konstantinos and Haralambos. Upon finishing High School
in 1937, he enrolled in the Scholi Evelpidon Officer
Academy
(Σχολή Ευελπίδων). He completed his three-year education in 1940.
Papadopoulos' biographical notes, that were published as a booklet by supporters in 1980, mention that he attended a Civil engineering
course at the Polytechneion
but did not graduate.
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Condition:
The  coins  my  opinion characterized :
UNC
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