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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	2,400th anniversary of the founding of Plato’s Academy	20001 20002
	Description : The School of Philosophy founded by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato (∼428‐348 BC) in the grove of the Attic hero Akademos in north‐western Athens, called the Akademeia, existed for almost a millennium until Justinian I prohibited teaching in 529. Its teachings were passed on to medieval Europe via the Arab world. The coin, designed by Georgios Stamatopoulos, shows the head of Plato's bronze statue, created by Silanion and preserved in Roman copies, which was placed in the Academy after his death. The left‐hand side shows the occasion of issue "2400 ΧΡΟΝΙΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΙΔΡΥΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΑΚΑΔΗΜΙΑΣ ΠΛΑΤΩΝΟΣ" (2400 years since the founding of the Plato Academy) and "ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ" (Hellenic Republic), the right‐hand side shows a palmette the mint mark of the Greek mint Νομισματοκοπειο / Nomismatokopeio (Bank of Greece ‐ Mint) in Halandri and the year of issue "2013".

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