Greece

On January 1, 1999 eleven European member states adopted the euro as their currency and started producing the coins in order to replace their national currencies by January 1, 2002. Following a delay of exactly two years, Greece was also accepted into the Eurozone but it became impossible for the Hellenic Mint to produce 1300 million euro coins in time for the January 1, 2002 changeover to the new currency. The officials decided to order 500 million coins from abroad (Spain, Finland and France) and these coins feature two different mintmarks: the anthemion flower, which can be found on all the Greek modern coins and a small letter indicating the mint in which the coin was struck.

Mintmark "S": Finland (Suomi) on the 1 and 2 euro coins - inside star nº 7
Mintmark "E": Spain (Espana) on the 20 cent coins - inside star nº 9
Mintmark "F": France on the 1, 2, 5, 10 and 50 cent coins - inside star nº 3, 9 and 11
Click here to see the image of the eight special and beautiful greek coins.

YEAR	0,01 €	0,02 €	0,05 €	0,10 €	0,20 €	0,50 €	1,00 €	2,00 €
2002-E					V
2002-F	V	V	V	V		E
2002-S							V	V
2002	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	E
2003	E	V	V	V	V	V	E	V
2004	E	V	V	E	V	V	E	V
2005	E	V	V	V	V	V	V	V
2006	E	E	V	V	V	V	V	V
2007	?	?	V	?	?	?	V	?

E-Easy to get ---- - -- --- V-Very difficult to get------ - - ----

Missing coins:
Like the finnish coins, they are so beautiful as difficult to find.

2002-F
2003			5 c	10 c	20 c	50 c		2 €
2004			5 c		20 c	50 c		2 €
2005			5 c
2007					20 c	50 c		2 €
2010	1c	2 c	5 c	10 c	20 c	50 c	1 €	2 €

Last Update: 03/11/2010