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GREECE.   20  EURO - CENTS  { LEPTA }

YEAR :  2007

IOANNIS  KAPODISTRIAS

BANK OF GREECE

GREEK COIN [ Krause - Mishler #: 185 ] ,

Diameter (mm): 22.25

Thickness (mm): 2.14
Weight (g): 5.74
Composition: Nordic gold (89% copper - 5% aluminium - 5% zinc - 1% tin)
Shape: Round
Edge: Spanish  flower  share
Designer: Ms M.Andonatou


Description: Ioannis Kapodistrias (1776-1831), a distinguished National and European politician and diplomat, who became the first Governor of Hellas (1830-31) following the Greek War of Independence (1821-27).

 

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Ioannis Kapodistrias Greek : Κόμης Ιωάννης Αντώνιος Καποδίστριας Komis Ioannis Antonios Kapodistrias, also John Capodistrias, Russian : граф Иоанн Каподистрия Graf Ioann Kapodistriya, Italian : Giovanni Capo d'Istria Conte Capo d'Istria, (11 February 1776 – 9 October 1831) was a Greek Foreign Minister of the Russian Empire and one of the most distinguished politicians and diplomats of Europe. After a long career in European politics and diplomacy he was elected as the first head of state of independent Greece (1827-1833) and he is considered the founder of the modern Greek State, and the founder of Greek independence.
 
Early Career

Ioannis Kapodistrias was born in Corfu to a distinguished Corfiote family. Kapodistrias' father was the nobleman, artist and politician Antonios Maria Kapodistrias (Αντώνιος Μαρία Καποδίστριας). An ancestor of Kapodistrias' had been created a conte (count) by Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy, and the title was later (1679) inscribed in the Libro d'Oro of the Corfu nobility, the title originates from Capodistria, a city on the eastern shore of the Gulf of Venice, now Koper in Slovenia and the place of origin of Kapodistrias' paternal family before they moved to Corfu in the 13th century where they changed their religion from Catholic to Orthodox and became hellenized. His family's name in Capodistria was Vitori or Vittori.

His mother was Adamantine Gonemis (Αδαμαντία (Διαμαντίνα) Γονέμη), a countess, and daughter of the noble Christodoulos Gonemis (Χριστόδουλος Γονέμης). The Gonemis were a Greek family originally from the island of Cyprus, they had migrated to Crete when Cyprus fell to the Ottomans in the 16th century. They then migrated to Epirus when Crete fell in the 17th century, finally settling on the Ionian island of Corfu.

The Gonemis family, like the Kapodistrias, had been listed in the Libro d'Oro (Golden Book) of Corfu. Kapodistrias, though born and raised as a nobleman, was throughout his life a liberal thinker and had democratic ideals. His ancestors fought along with the Venetians during the Turkish sieges of Corfu and had received a title of nobility from them.

Kapodistrias studied medicine, philosophy and law at Padua, in Italy. When he was 21 years old, in 1797, he started his medical practice as a doctor in his native island of Corfu. In 1799, when Corfu was briefly occupied by the forces of Russia and Turkey, Kapodistrias was appointed chief medical director of the military hospital. In 1802 he founded an important scientific and social progress organisation in Corfu, the "National Medical Association", of which he was an energetic member.

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Condition:

The coins is  UNCirculated

have come out from rolls of coins BANK OF GREECE.

See the scan (pictures), shape your own opinion
You will take  ONE coin of the roll that you see
in the  LAST photograph of sale.
The price is for each coin.

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