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10 Lepta
| Issuer | Crete |
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| Year | 1900 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Mintage | 1900 A - KM#4.1 - 2,000,000 1900 A - KM#4.2 medal alignment, angled reverse - |
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Crete's autonomous administration under Prince George of Greece — established by the Great Powers in 1898 following the island's de facto separation from the Ottoman Empire — required its own coinage to function as a credible self-governing entity. These pieces were struck in Paris, the Cretan State lacking any mint of its own. The arrangement lasted barely a decade; when Crete formally unified with Greece in 1913, the entire series became obsolete almost overnight.