10 & 20 Lepta Greek UNC 1973-A, PHOENIX OLIVE BRANCH SOLDIER JUNTA, Set 2 Coins

Description

*****   O  F  F  E  R   *****
GREECE.
10 & 20
LEPTA
of  YEAR :
1973 (Type : A}
UNC
irculated
RRR  :  RARE
Set  of
2  Greek coins
in Drachmas.
Mintage :
2.742.000
&
2.718.797
GREEK COIN [
KM#: 102 & 104
]
,
Diameter (mm):
20.0 & 22.0
Weight (g):
1.10 & 1.30
Composition:
Alluminum
Edge:
Smooth
Engravers
:
V. Falireas, N. Perantinos
[
Greek   Military  - Junda
]
It is the coins
:
S O L D I E R    -   P H O E N I X
&
OLIVE   BRANCH
Description:
(a)
The
phoenix
, or
phenix
(
Greek
:
Φοίνιξ
Greek pronunciation: ['finiks]
,
Persian
:
ققنوس
,
Arabic
: العنقاء
أو طائر الفينيق
,
Chinese
:
鳳凰
or
不死鳥
,
Hebrew
:
פניקס
), is a mythical sacred
fire bird
that can be found in the
mythologies
of the
Arabian
,
Persians
,
Greeks
,
Romans
,
Egyptians
,
Chinese
,
Indians
and (according to
Sanchuniathon
)
Phoenicians
.
It is described as a bird with a colorful plumage and a tail of gold and scarlet (or purple, blue, and green according to some legends). It has a 500 to 1000 year life-cycle, near the end of which it builds itself a nest of twigs that then ignites; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix or phoenix egg arises, reborn anew to live again. The new phoenix is destined to live as long as its old self. In some stories, the new phoenix embalms the ashes of its old self in an egg made of myrrh and deposits it in the Egyptian city of
Heliopolis
(literally "sun-city" in Greek). It is said that the bird's cry is that of a beautiful song. The Phoenix's ability to be reborn from its own ashes implies that it is immortal, though in some stories the new Phoenix is merely the offspring of the older one. In very few stories they are able to change into people.
The phoenix bird symbolizes immortality, resurrection and life after death in the ancient Greek and Egyptian mythology. According to the Greeks, the bird lives in Arabia, near a cool well and every morning at dawn, the sun god would stop his chariot to listen to the bird sing. Only one phoenix exists at a time. When the bird felt its death was near, every 500 to 1,461 years, it would build a nest of aromatic wood and set it on fire.
&
(b) Agriculture was the foundation of the Ancient Greek economy and nearly 80% of the population was involved in this activity. The Greek land was very well adapted for olive trees, which provided olive oil. Olive plantations are a long-term investment: it takes more than twenty years for the tree to provide fruit, and it only fruits every other year ...
GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC.
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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 USA 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  characterized :
UNC
See the scan (pictures), shape your own opinion
You will take 2 different coins that you see
in the
LAST photographs
of sale.
The
price is for
each set of 2 coins.
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