Description:
Obverse
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, surrounded by his name
Reverse
Temple of Athena-Nike (Acropolis) surrounded by the facial value with new spelling ("drachmes") and the country's name
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