Katerina Brégianni, Modern Greek Coins, State and Ideology from the Revolution to the Inter-war years, Academy of Athens, Athens, 2011, 363 p.

If the historical account of the modern Greek coin had been published three years ago, it is almost certain that it would have been dealt with as research into a period that had finished, probably never to return, in 2001. Recent developments, however, and the severe crisis that the Eurozone is facing, with Greece as the pinnacle, but with its other member states moving towards the same impasse, oblige the reader to look again at the history of the drachma from a different angle, seeking para..