Description:
Obverse
The portrait in left profile of Pericles (ca. 495 – 429 BC), a prominent and influential statesman, orator, and general of Athens in the city's Golden Age, is surrounded with a legend which indicates his name in Greek: "ΠΕΡΙΚΛΗΣ"
Reverse
The Parthenon is surrounded with the facial value according to the former spelling ("20 ΔΡΑΧΜΑΙ") and the inscription "ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ" (Republic of Greece)
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