2025 Greece €5 Silver Proof Coin - The Battle of Maniaki 200 Years

• Mint: Bank of Greece
• Denomination: €5
• Quality: Proof
• Issue limit: 2,000 pcs.
• Alloy: 33.3% Silver
• Diameter: 31 mm
• Weight: 17 grams
• Fine Silver Weight: 0.182 oz
• Design: G. Stamatopoulos
• Box/Capsule: No/Yes
• Certificate: Printed folder

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This issue remembers the Battle of Maniaki in 1825.

The battle of Maniaki was an attempt to resist invasion from Egypt, which resulted in a major defeat. The loss strengthened Greek morale in their struggle for independence, which followed in 1832.

The invasion of the Peloponnese by Ibrahim Pasha’s Egyptians found the Greek government unprepared and the people divided by the civil war. After landing unopposed at Methoni, Ibrahim seized Navarino and was ready to march against Tripolitsa, in the heartland of the Peloponnese. Amidst government inactivity, the Greek priest and fighter Grigorios Dikaios (Papaflessas) took the initiative to set up an army of 1,500 men and fortified the village of Maniaki in western Messenia. Vastly outnumbered, most of the Greek troops fled, but Papaflessas decided to stay and fight with just 500 men. In the battle of Maniaki, on May 20, 1825, the Greeks suffered a crushing defeat, and Papaflessas was killed in a heroic last stand for which he earned Ibrahim’s respect. His sacrifice, even belatedly, managed to galvanise and unite the Greeks against the mortal threat facing the Revolution.