10 Euros Yannis Ritsos

Reverse

Portrait of the Greek poet Yiannis Ritsos with the logo “2009 YIANNIS RITSOS YEAR”.

Script: Greek

Lettering: 2009 ΕΤΟΣ ΓΙΑΝΝΗ ΡΙΤΣΟ

Translation: 2009 YIANNIS RITSOS YEAR

Engraver: Geórgios Stamatópoulos

Edge

Smooth with ten indentations ("Spanish flower")

Comment

Yiannis Ritsos was born in Monemvasia in Peloponese, on 1909. He's consindered one of the great Greek poets of the twentieth century, alongside Konstantinos Kavafis, Kostas Kariotakis, Angelos Sikelianos, Giorgos Seferis, and Odysseas Elytis. The French poet Louis Aragon once said that Ritsos was "the greatest poet of our age." He was unsuccessfully proposed nine times for the Nobel Prize for Literature. When he won the Lenin Peace Prize in 1975, he declared "this prize is more important for me than the Nobel. His poetry was banned at times in Greece due to his left wing beliefs. Notable works by Ritsos include Tractor (1934), Pyramids (1935), Epitaphios (1936), Vigil (1941–1953), Romiosini (1954) and 18 short songs of the bitter Motherland (18 lianotragouda tis pikris patridas) (1973). Yiannis Ritsos died in Athens on 1990 and buried in his hometown Monemvasia.

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Price

Date	Mintage	VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
2009	5000	-	-	-	-	-	-

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