1912 Greece 2 Drachmai

The 1912 2 Drachmai was struck in Paris, far from the Balkan War's front lines, using silver planchets that Greek officials sourced amid the chaos.

That arrangement made sense. Greece lacked a domestic mint, so foreign facilities handled production, including this denomination with King George I's portrait on the obverse and the Greek coat of arms on the reverse. The coin's edge bears the inscription "ΕΛΛΑΣ," a straightforward nod to the nation it represented.

Details on exact mintage figures are murky; records from that era often vanished in bureaucratic shuffles or wartime disruptions. What we do know is that these coins circulated briefly before economic pressures rendered them impractical.

Some specimens show die varieties, like subtle differences in the king's effigy, which keep cataloguers occupied.