5 Drachmai - Otto Pattern

Features

Issuer	Greece
King	Otto (1832-1862)
Type	Patterns
Year	1833
Value	5 Drachmai
Currency	First modern drachma (1832-1944)
Composition	Pewter (Sn: 94.34; Pb: 3.76; Cu: 0.915; Sb: 0.809; Bi: 0.175)
Weight	20.75 g
Diameter	38 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 408461
References	KM# Pn13 Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes). , Karamitsos# T.22 Takēs Karatzas (ed.); 2007. Hellas Coins: Coins of Modern Greece = Νομίσματα της Νεότερης Ελλάδας. A. Karamitsos, Thessaloníki, Greece.

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Obverse

Youthful head of Otho to right.

Script: Greek

Lettering:
ΟΘΩΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ
K. ΦΟÏΓΤ

Translation: OTHON KING OF GREECE

Engraver: Carl Friedrich Voigt

Reverse

Crowned shield bearing the coat of arms of Greece with the Wittelsbach arms at the center; all within an olive wreath with ties below.

Script: Greek

Lettering:
5 ΔΡΑΧΜΑΙ
1833 A
✶

Engraver: Carl Friedrich Voigt

Edge

Reeded

Mint

A	Monnaie de Paris, Paris (and Pessac starting 1973), France (864-date)

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
1833 A

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