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10 Lepta - George I 2nd portrait
| Issuer | Greece |
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| Year | 1878-1882 |
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| Diameter | 30.3 mm |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Mintage | 1878 K - - 7,140,000 1879 A - - 358,000 1882 A - - 16,000,000 |
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Greece's bronze coinage of this period was minted in Paris, a dependency of the Latin Monetary Union framework that governed much of continental Europe's subsidiary coinage from 1865 onward. The 2nd portrait variety of George I displaced the earlier effigy beginning in 1878, a modification attributed to the Paris Mint's re-engraving of the royal portrait rather than any royal decree or political event.
KM#55 is the scarcer of the two portrait types in circulated grades, largely because the 1878–1882 window produced lower combined mintages than the initial series.