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5 Drachmai - Otto Pattern
| Issuer | Greece |
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| Year | 1833 |
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| Engraver(s) | Carl Friedrich Voigt |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Otto of Wittelsbach arrived in Greece in 1833 as a seventeen-year-old Bavarian prince placed on the throne of a nation that had only just emerged from a decade of war against Ottoman rule. The new kingdom had no functioning monetary system, and Bavarian administrators in his regency council scrambled to establish one almost from nothing. Pattern pieces like this were struck in Munich as part of that planning process, testing proposed denominations and designs before the definitive silver coinage was authorized.
The pewter composition is characteristic of pattern and trial work from this period — cheap enough to strike in multiples for review, durable enough to survive handling by committee members and mint officials making production decisions.