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LOT 3646

Sold for (Inc. bp): £195


Greece. First Hellenic Republic, Ioannis Antonios Kapodistrias, Governor CU 20 Lepta. 1828-1831.

Aegina mint. Dated 1831. Designs by Georgios Papakonstantopoulos and Dimitrios Kontos. ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΠΟΛΙΤΕΙΑ, Phoenix rising from flames, head upturned to left, with wings spread; rays to upper left, long cross above; αωκα (1821) on raised oval tablet below / ΚΥΒΕΡΝΗΤΗΣ Ι. Α. ΚΑΠΟΔΙΣΤΡΙΑΣ, 20 ΛΕΠΤΑ (denomination) within olive and laurel branches; date below. KM11; Chase 501 (Q-p). 35.55gr, 36mm, 12h.

Good Very Fine. Double struck(?) of ω in αωκα.

PROVENANCE:
From a private, UK, collection in the 1980s.
Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.

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