Our coins and banknotes

The strongest currency across the then-known world was dubbed “glaux” (Ancient Greek for “owl”) from the type on the reverse.

Some barbaric tribes in the North issued imitations of the gold and silver coins of Philip II long after the original coins had been discontinued.

In 1820 Ioannis Kapodistrias, the Governor of Greece, officially launched minting operations at the Aegina mint.

A galloping inflation resulted in the issue of many absurdly high denomination banknotes from 1941 to 1944.