Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
5 Euros Filiki Eteria
| Issuer | Bank of Greece |
|---|---|
| Year | 2014 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | 30.50 mm |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Three-quarter facing group portrait of the three founders of the Filiki Etaireia — Emmanouil Xanthos, Nikolaos Skoufas, and Athanasios Tsakalov — rendered in relief at the centre of the field. The Hellenic Republic coat of arms appears to the left, with the denomination '5 ΕΥΡΩ' and the date '2014' inscribed in the field. The encircling legend 'ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ' runs along the upper periphery, all lettering in Greek script. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
The Filiki Eteria — the "Friendly Society" — was a secret revolutionary organization founded in Odessa in 1814, exactly two centuries before this issue. Its three founding merchants, Nikolaos Skoufas, Emmanuil Xanthos, and Athanasios Tsakalov, built a clandestine network across the Greek diaspora that would directly trigger the 1821 uprising against Ottoman rule. The society's cell structure was deliberately modeled on Freemasonry, with initiates sworn to secrecy under penalty of death.
Greece issued this coin as part of a broader centennial commemorative program marking the 1821 revolution's bicentennial approach, releasing themed pieces across multiple years leading up to 2021.