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10 Drachmai - Constantine II
| Issuer | Kingdom of Greece |
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| Year | 1968 |
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| Currency | Third modern drachma (1954-2001) |
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| Obverse lettering | ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΤΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ Β. ΦΑΛΗΡΕΑΣ ·1968· (Translation: Constantine King of the Greeks V. Phalireas ·1968·) |
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| Reverse lettering | ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΟΝ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ 10 • ΔΡΑΧΜΑΙ • (Translation: Kingdom of Greece 10 Drachmai) |
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This issue belongs to the coinage introduced under the military junta that seized power in April 1967. Constantine II had already fled Greece by December of that year following a failed counter-coup, leaving the colonels in effective control — yet his portrait continued to appear on Greek coinage through 1970, a bureaucratic fiction of royal legitimacy that the regime found useful. He was formally deposed in absentia when Greece was declared a republic in 1973.