Check this Dude out!

This is a really impressive looking guy! Look at the age of the rifles on the reverse. Makes you feel like you stepped back in time.
Can't read the language, but it might say "No Trespassing!"

 

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Having some pic problem. Please excuse.

 

Okay, here is the coin's obverse.hya:
Alright, I'm obviously over my head here. I'll switch the photo around in some files, and post here later.

 

My Hewlett Packard scanner software hates my Kodak camera software, and I ,being a technophob, am like a Timex watch in a digtal age! Some PC Wizard should really give me some help. Any who, here we go!

 

I hope this works.

 

Its a Greek 2 Drachmes coin TW. Its better grade than the one I own. LOL

 

Km#130 Value $1 in MS condition.

 

Kid your the best!

 

The Greeks sure love there guns....I guess the reverse design is their national emblem.

 

More important than the guns is the olive branch which was put over the 2 guns. Greece was ruled by army colonels from 1967 until 1974. This regime was overthrown in 1974 and the new government wanted to show they got rid of the military.

On the other side there's the portait of Georgios Karaiskakis, a hero of the Greek War of Independence. Here's an article on Wikipedia about him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karaiskakis