Description:
Obverse
The portrait in left profile of Solon (ca. 638 – 558 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 new spelling ("50 ΔΡΑΧΜΕΣ"), above the sea, is surrounded with the inscription "ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ" (Hellenic Republic)
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