LOT OF 12: Greece. 1 drachma Greek Coin 1973, OWL - PHOENIX - Greek Military.

Greece KM107(C) Greece, Regime of the Colonels, 1 Drachma, 1973

Weight/Dimensions: 4 g - per coin | 48 g - per lot

Grade Condition: (C)

Size: 21mm

Metal: Nickel-Brass

Obverse: A Phoenix rising from its flames, date below, HELLENIC REPUBLIC in Greek

Reverse: Athenian Owl in the style used on the famous 5th century BCE Athenian tetradrachm

Description

The Greek military junta of 1967-1974, commonly known as the Regime of the Colonels, or in Greece simply The Junta and The Seven Years, was a series of far-right military juntas that ruled Greece following the 1967 Greek coup d’état led by a group of colonels on 21 April 1967. The dictatorship ended on 24 July 1974 under the pressure of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. The fall of the junta was followed by the Metapolitefsi, and the establishment of the Third Hellenic Republic.