GREECE 2009 COMPLETE YEAR EURO SET + 5 EURO SILVER .925 OFFICIAL COIN BLISTER YIANNIS RITSOS

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GREECE 2009 YEAR EURO COIN SET + SILVER YIANNIS RITSOS

MINTAGE: ONLY 5000 !!

Coins are in perfect condition, sealed, never opened, come in original Government Envelop, set 9 Coins and includes one unique Silver 10€ in perfect condition, that is available only in the official proof sets.

Denomination:   10, 2 and 1 Euro, 50, 20, 10, 5, 2, 1 Cent

Yiannis Ritsos was born in Monemvasia in Peloponese, on 1909. He's consindered one of the great Greek poets of the twentieth century, alongside Konstantinos Kavafis, Kostas Kariotakis, Angelos Sikelianos, Giorgos Seferis, and Odysseas Elytis. The French poet Louis Aragon once said that Ritsos was "the greatest poet of our age." He was unsuccessfully proposed nine times for the Nobel Prize for Literature. When he won the Lenin Peace Prize in 1975, he declared "this prize is more important for me than the Nobel. His poetry was banned at times in Greece due to his left wing beliefs. Notable works by Ritsos include Tractor (1934), Pyramids (1935), Epitaphios (1936), Vigil (1941–1953), Romiosini (1954) and 18 short songs of the bitter Motherland (18 lianotragouda tis pikris patridas) (1973). Yiannis Ritsos died in Athens on 1990 and buried in his hometown Monemvasia.