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200 Euros Maria Callas
| Issuer | Bank of Greece |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Value | 200 Euros |
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| Obverse lettering | ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ Maria Callas 200 ΕΥΡΩ (Translation: HELLENIC REPUBLIC 200 EURO) |
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| Edge | Milled |
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This piece belongs to Greece's ongoing commemorative gold program and marks the centenary of Callas's birth in 1923. Born in New York to Greek immigrant parents, she made her professional debut in Athens during the Axis occupation — a biographical detail that complicates the simple nationalist framing these commemoratives tend to invoke. The Bank of Greece has issued gold collector pieces sporadically since the 1990s, but the series gained regularity only after the post-2010 debt restructuring, when such high-denomination numismatic issues became a modest but deliberate revenue instrument.