| Description : The region of Thrace, which was unified with Greece in 1920
under the Treaty of Sèvres, accounts for 12% of only the western part of the historical landscape of Thrace, which
was settled by Thracians around the 4th century BC ‐ the European part of Turkey, Eastern Thrace, accounts
for 31%, Northern Thrace in Bulgaria for 57%. The current border between Turkey and Greece has its origins in the Treaty
of Lausanne signed in 1923. The coin, designed by Georgios Stamatopoulos, shows a
stater (tetrobel), from around the 4th century BC, from the ancient city of Abdera, home of the philosophers
Democritus and Protagoras. It depicts a griffin, under the inscription "ΑΒΔΗΡΑ" (Abdera). At
the top is written in a semicircle "100 ΧΡΟΝΙΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ
ΕΝΣΩΜΑΤΩΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΘΡΑΚΗΣ"
(100 years since the integration of Thrace), below "ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ
ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ" (Hellenic Republic). On the left is a palmette the mint mark
of the Greek mint Νομισματοκοπειο /
Nomismatokopeio (Bank of Greece ‐ Mint) in Halandri, and (under the griffin) the signet "ΣΤΑΜ"
of the coin designer and on the right the year of issue "2020". |
