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Greece
The edge lettering on the Greek 2‐Euro‐commemorative coins is : (Hellenic Republic)	Greek mint mark :

Image	Country		Feature	Ref.
		Greece	100th anniversary of the union of Crete with Greece	20001 20002
	Description : The coin, designed by Georgios Stamatopoulos, shows Cretan rebels surrounded by laurel branches with fruit in Theriso, a municipality near Chania, during the 1905 revolt against the Ottomans led by Eleftherios Venizelos. The Greek national flag on land there was embroidered with the motto "unification or death". The Treaty of London in 1913 made the island part of the Greek state. On the top left is "ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ" (Hellenic Republic) shown, on the right a palmette the mint mark of the Greek mint Νομισματοκοπειο / Nomismatokopeio (Bank of Greece ‐ Mint) in Halandri and below the dates "1913‐2013". At the botton is a semicircular description of the occation of issue: "100 ΧΡΟΝΙΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΕΝΩΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΚΡΗΤΗΣ ΜΕ ΤΗΝ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ" (100 years since the unification of Crete with Greece).

References :
20001	Images taken with authorisation by the ECB ‐ Mail dated 20.Feb.2020 © "European Central Bank"	20002	Text taken from German Wikipedia and translated by DeepL
20003	Images taken temporally from the Internet	20004	Not Applicable