Greece is issuing commemorative €2 coins honoring the 70th anniversary of the Dodecanese islands’ return to Greece.
The Dodecanese is a group of 15 large islands — including Rhodes and Kos — and 93 small islands and islets in the Southeastern Aegean. They were formally united with Greece by the 1947 Peace Treaty with Italy following World War II.
The design, confined to the copper-nickel core of the ringed coin, shows a rose — the symbol of Rhodes — inspired from one minted by the ancient city, with stylized waves fanning out to the core’s rim border.
Inscribed along it is the phrase “1948-2018 the union of the Dodecanese with Greece and Hellenic Republic” in Greek.
A total of 750,000 commemorative €2 coins per design are expected to be released soon, according to a statement from the European Commission.
Source: Philip Chrysopoulos/greekreporter
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