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100 Euros Hestia
| Issuer | Bank of Greece |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | A draped female figure, identified as Hestia, goddess of the hearth in Greek mythology, is depicted seated in profile on a high-backed throne, rendered in a style inspired by ancient Greek red-figure vase painting. She raises her right arm to hold aloft a flowering branch, her robes falling in elegant folds around her form. To the left of the figure, the name ΕΣΤΙΑ appears vertically above the date 2025, accompanied by a decorative floral mintmark. The legend ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΜΥΘΟΛΟΓΙΑ curves along the upper right of the field. A continuous Greek key (meander) border encircles the entire composition, and the engraver's initials appear in the lower right of the field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Hestia is the rarest of the twelve Olympians on Greek coinage — her cult had no temple in Athens and she received no festival, which made her an unusual but deliberate choice for a modern numismatic issue. The Bank of Greece has issued collector gold in this format as part of an ongoing Olympian gods series, with each release tied to a specific deity.
The .9999 fineness places this above the traditional .900 gold standard used for Greek circulation coinage of the 19th and early 20th centuries — a specification chosen specifically for the bullion and collector market rather than any circulating monetary function.