Greece. 50 drachmas 1998 UNC, Year Rigas Ferreos, Greek Coin BANK OF GREECE

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GREECE.
50
DRACHMAI
YEAR :
1998
Year : Dionisiou Solomou & Riga Ferraiou
BANK OF GREECE
Mintage :
25.000.000
GREEK COIN [
KM#: 171
]
,
Diameter (mm):
27.5
Thickness (mm):
2.25 (+/- 0.01)
Weight (g):
9.00
Composition:
92% copper - 6% aluminium - 2% nickel
Shape:
Round
Edge:
Milled
Engraver:
Stamatopoulos
[
Greek   Democracy
]
It is the Commemorative coin
:
Year  RIGA  FERRAIOU (VELESTINLI)
GREEK  PARLIAMENT,
1798 - 1998
200 Years the death of.
Description:
200 years Rigas Fereos Velestinlis 1798-1998 Rigas-Fereos (Velestinlis) (1757-1798) was a forerunner and leading figure of the Greek enlightenment and confederation. He was the first to visualize the liberation of the Balkans from the Ottoman Empire and was executed by the Ottomans in 1798 after vainly attempting to launch a Balkan-wide revolt against Ottoman rule. Although Rigas was killed he put his ideas into practice.
GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC.
Rigas
Rigas Feraios (or Rhegas Pheraeos) or Rigas Velestinlis (or Rhegas Velestinles) (
Greek
:
Ρήγας Βελεστινλής-Φεραίος
,
pronounced
[ˈriɣas velestinˈlis feˈreos]
, born Αντώνιος Κυριαζής,
Antonios Kyriazis
,
pronounced
[anˈtoɲos cirʝaˈzis]
; also known as Κωνσταντίνος Ρήγας,
Konstantinos
or
Constantine Rhigas
;
Serbian
: Рига од Фере,
Riga od Fere
,
[rǐːga ɔd fɛ̂rɛː]
; 1757 – June 13, 1798) was a Greek writer and revolutionary of
Aromanian
origin, active in the
Modern Greek Enlightenment
, remembered as a Greek national hero, a victim of Balkan uprising against the
Ottoman Empire
and a forerunner of the
Greek War of Independence
.
Early life
Antonios Kyriazes ("Rhegas") was born in 1757 into a wealthy family in the village of
Velestino
,
Thessaly
, in
Greece
(then in the
Ottoman Empire
) - near ancient
Pherae
. From the ancient name of "Pherae" he was at some time given the nickname
Pheraeos
or
Feraios
, but he does not seem ever to have used this name himself. He is sometimes described as being of
Aromanian
ancestry, but according to Peter Mackridge "there is no sure evidence to support this". He was educated at the school of
Ampelakia, Larissa
.
He became a teacher in the village of
Kissos
, and he fought the local Ottoman presence. At the age of twenty he killed an important Ottoman figure, and fled to the uplands of
Mount Olympus
, where he enlisted in a band of soldiers led by
Spiros Zeras
.
He later went to the monastic community of
Mount Athos
, where he was received by Cosmas,
hegumen
of the
Vatopedi monastery
; from there to
Constantinople
(
Istanbul
), where he became a secretary to the
Phanariote
Alexander Ypsilantis (1725-1805)
.
Arriving in
Bucharest
, the capital of Ottoman
Wallachia
, Rhegas returned to school, learned several languages and eventually became a clerk for the Wallachian
Prince
Nicholas Mavrogenes
. When the
Russo-Turkish War (1787-1792)
broke out, he was charged with the inspection of the troops in the city of
Craiova
.
Here he entered into friendly relations with an Ottoman officer named
Osman Pazvantoğlu
, afterwards the rebellious
Pasha
of
Vidin
, whose life he saved from the vengeance of Mavrogenes. He learned about the
French Revolution
, and came to believe something similar could occur in the
Balkans
, resulting in self-determination for the Christian subjects of the Ottomans; he developed support for an uprising by meeting Greek
bishops
and
guerrilla
leaders.
After the death of his patron Rhegas returned to Bucharest to serve for some time as
dragoman
at the
French
consulate
. At this time he wrote his famous
Greek
version of
La Marseillaise
, the anthem of
French revolutionaries
, a version familiar through
Lord Byron
's paraphrase as "
sons of the
Greeks
, arise
".
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The  coins  characterized :
UNC
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