With great participation, it was presented yesterday Thursday, March 20, 2025 at Bank of Greece The Monetary Program 2025. At the event the Governor of the Bank of Greece was addressed Giannis Stournaras and the Secretary General of the Financial Policy of the Ministry of National Economy and Finance Pavlina Karassiotou.

In his address, Mr. Stournaras said: “In the era of the single currency, the Bank of Greece’s Bank of Bank and Values ​​(ITA) Printing Foundation, in addition to participating in the production of banknotes and coins, also produces collectible and commemorative and commemorative coins Heritage of our country, but also modern, as we shall see, issues. “

For her part, Ms. Karassiotou noted: “Running this year’s annual monetary program will find that what characterizes it over time is the passion, especially in the choice of themes. A catalytic factor in the success of the program is clearly the loving cooperation between the Bank of Greece and the State Accounting Office. Equally important, however, is to gain even greater extroversion in promoting the program, with the aim of becoming even more widely known between traders and collectors. Professionalism, simplification, opening to the market are elements that will make our monetary program even more successful, with a success proportional to its quality. “

The event also spoke:

– Andreas Maratos, Dr. Philosophy and painter,

– Nikolaos Anastassopoulos, Assistant Professor of Modern Greek History, Department of History and Archeology University of Ioannina,

– Stella Skoura, Legal Adviser to the Takis Foundation.

The event was co -ordinated by the Director of the Foundation for the Printing of Banknotes and Values ​​(ITA) Konstantinos Dimitrakopoulos.

The monetary program is implemented every year by the Ministry of National Economy and Finance and the Bank of Greece and includes collectibles and commemorative coins inspired by important anniversaries of the year, by the country’s cultural heritage, important personalities and the natural world. The design and printing of the coins is done by the Bank of Greece’s Bank of Bank Printing Foundation (ITA) of the Bank of Greece, known to all mint.

The monetary program 2025 – the harmony of spheres

This year’s monetary program “meets” a composer, a mathematician, an astronomer, a sculptor and an insect! In ancient Greece, the Pythagoreans believed that the movements of the celestial bodies make up a kind of music (harmony of the balls), combining mathematics, music and astronomy. Indeed, today, NASA, using state -of -the -art technology, has managed to record the eerie music of the movement of the planets.

Thus, this year’s program includes a leading Greek composer, Mikis Theodorakis, the genius Eratosthenes, who first calculated the perimeter of the Earth, Ptolemy, inventor of the spherical astrolavos, and the pioneering sculptor Takis, the creator of music sculptures. Together they compose the harmony of the spheres, with the musical accompaniment of the irrevocable Jitsika from the well -known legend of Aesop “Tzitzikas and Mermigas”.

As for the earlier series, they continue to commemorate events of the Greek Revolution, this year with coins dedicated to the Battle of Maniaki, in which Papaflesas was killed in Laskarina Bouboulina and Italian Philhellenic Santoro Di. The theme of the Tourism series is Thessaly, the home of the Centaurs and the starting point of the Argonautic campaign, while the currency of the Cultural Heritage series is dedicated to Meteora, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

In 2025 the series is completed by the gods of Olympus with Estonia. The next endangered animals in Greece is Mavrogypus (Aegypius monachus), especially vulnerable, after the recent devastating fire in the Dadia Forest. The climate crisis is more timely than ever, because its effects are becoming increasingly intense and immediate. In this context, this year is supported by the issuance of a relevant coin that the United Nations initiative to declare an international year of glacier protection in 2025. Finally, the 50th anniversary of the founding of the War Museum in Athens is honored, which hosts valuable war relics from centuries -old Greek history.

In detail the Stournara statement:

I welcome you to today’s presentation of the monetary program of the Ministry of National Economy and Finance and the Bank of Greece for 2025.

In its centuries -old history, Hellenism has offered a lot to world culture. An important contribution is the introduction of the coin with its current form. Monetary history begins with the ancient Greek cities, which were the first to adopt in their transactions the use of coins with symbolic content, while opening a new chapter in the history of art. This brilliant tradition continued in the new Greek state with the latest mint of the drachma.

At the time of the single currency, the Bank of Greece’s Bank of Bank Printing Foundation, in addition to participating in the production of banknotes and euro coins, also produces collectible and commemorative coins that are small works of art and expressing timeless ideas, See, themes.

The chapter of ancient Greek culture, which is represented in this program by two brilliant mathematicians, Eratosthenes and Ptolemy with its astrolate, by the goddess Estonia, is prominent in this year’s monetary program. Passing on to our modern history, as we have honored events of the Greek Revolution, this year we issue coins for the Battle of Maniak, Laskarina Bouboulina and Italian Philhellenic Santarosa. And coming to our modern history and culture, we devote collectible coins to Mikis Theodorakis and the sculptor Takis.

I would particularly want to dwell on certain issues of this year’s monetary program that are very close to areas of interest in the Bank of Greece. As you know, the bank has set up the impact study committee of climate change (EMKA) and has the Center for Climate Change and Sustainability as its functional unit. So we could not fail to support the United Nations initiative to declare an international year of glacier protection in 2025, dedicating a silver collection. Also, in the series of endangered animals in Greece this year we have the issue of Mavrovpa, who is particularly vulnerable after the devastating fire of 2023 in its main habitat, the Dadia Forest. Finally, in the Tourism we chose Thessaly, which is struggling to recover after the Daniel natural disaster.