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Description:
Obverse
The portrait in left profile of Solon (ca. 638 – 658 BC), a famous Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and Lyric poet, is accompanied with a legend which indicates his name in Greek: "ΣΟΛΩΝ"
Reverse
The facial value according to the former spelling ("20 ΔΡΑΧΜΑΙ"), above the sea, is surrounded with the inscription "ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ" (Greek Democracy)
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