GREECE 2020 2 EURO BU IN COIN CARD SEALED Battle of Thermopylae King Leonidas Sparta

Bank Of Greece
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0279
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GREECE 2020 2 EURO IN COIN CARD Thermopylae Leonidas Sparta

Denomination: €2

Diameter: 25.75 mm
Weight: 8.50 gr
Thickness: 2.20 mm
Edge: fine milled/edge lettering
Ring material: copper nickel
Inner material: nickel brass
Packaging: coin card blister
Maximum issue: 10,000 pieces
Minting quality: brilliant uncirculated
Coin designed by: G. Stamatopoulos
Packaging designed by: A. Michelioudaki

480 BC, the Greeks, under the command of Leonidas, king of Sparta, tried to halt the advance
of the vast Persian army at the narrow pass of Thermopylae. The Greeks’ self-sacrifice, following
Leonidas’s refusal to surrender his arms with the famously defiant retort “Come and take them”
(«Μολών λαβέ»), is a timeless inspiration for every nation fighting for freedom.