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1 Lepton Pattern
| Issuer | Greece |
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| Year | 1833 |
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| Value | 1 Lepton (0.01) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely typographic, with no pictorial device. The engraver's name T. ERTEL. appears along the upper arc of the legend, flanked by dot stops. Occupying the central field in four stacked lines is the inscription PROBE. / MÜN. / ZE., signifying this is a trial or proof piece. The place and date of manufacture, MÜNCHEN. 1833., are inscribed along the lower arc of the peripheral legend. The bold, serif lettering fills the field completely, leaving minimal open space, and is characteristic of Munich Mint pattern production of the early 1830s. |
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Greece's first post-independence coinage was struck in Munich in 1833, commissioned by the newly installed Bavarian king Otto I before a domestic mint existed. The 1 Lepton pattern was part of a trial series produced to establish the infant kingdom's monetary system — Otto's regency council had only just arrived in Nauplia, and the country had no functioning infrastructure of any kind, let alone a mint. Most pattern pieces from this Munich production run entered institutional collections almost immediately.