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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;silentnviolent, post: 1560934, member: 8797&quot;]Found a tiny pawn shop while travelling out in the sticks to go camping, and there were <i>coins</i> in there! So I got a few <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a Greece KM# 87&nbsp;&nbsp; 30 Drachmai</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; 12 grams .835 silver, .3221 oz ASW 30.3 mm</p><p><br /></p><p>It celebrates the wedding of Greek King Constantine and (princess of Denmark) Queen Anne-Marie.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There is very interesting history to go with this piece:&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Exile</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In December 1967 Anne-Marie’s husband King Constantine attempted a counter-coup against the military junta which had been sworn in by himself after a successful coup during the previous April. The counter-coup failed and Anne-Marie and her family had to flee to Italy. During the aftermath, Anne-Marie miscarried a child.[5] The family lived for two months in the Greek embassy and then for the next five years in a house in a suburb of Rome.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In 1973 Anne-Marie moved with her family to England. They lived first in Chobham in Surrey. Later they moved to the London suburb of Hampstead where they continue to live. The Greek government seized their former private home of Tatoi. It was only after a successful appeal to the European Court of Human Rights that the Greek government were forced to pay compensation for the property. King Constantine has used the monies obtained to set up the Anna-Marie Foundation.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;Official status since 1973</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In spite of the fact that Constantine and Anne-Marie had gone into exile in 1967, Greece officially remained a monarchy for several years, with Major General Georgios Zoitakis serving as Regent. On 1 June 1973 the self-appointed prime minister, Colonel George Papadopoulos, deposed Constantine as king and declared Greece a republic&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Anne-Marie_of_Greece" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Anne-Marie_of_Greece" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Anne-Marie_of_Greece</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I know wiki is not an optimal source, but it gives a good summary.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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