2025 Greece €2 UNC Coin - Mikis Theodorakis 100 Years

• Mint: Greek Mint
• Denomination: €2
• Quality: UNC
• Issue limit: 741,500
• Alloy: Base Metal
• Diameter: 25.75 mm
• Weight: 8.5 grams
• Design: George Stamatopoulos
• UNC version delivered in plastic baggie

Additional Information

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This coin has been issued to celebrate the 100th anniversary since the birth of the Greek composer and politician, Mikis Theodorakis.

Michail "Mikis" Theodorakis was a Greek composer and lyricist credited with over 1,000 works. He scored for the films Zorba the Greek, Z, and Serpico. He was a three-time BAFTA nominee, winning for Z. For the score in Serpico, he earned Grammy nominations.

Theodorakis emerged as a Marxist firebrand who waged a war of words and music against an infamous military junta that imprisoned and exiled him as a revolutionary and banned his work a half century ago.

After he was released from a detention camp in 1970, he began an international campaign of concerts and contacts with world leaders that helped topple the regime in Athens four years later. It was a turning point for democracy, with a new constitution and a membership in the European Economic Community, which later became the European Union.