Currency: euro

   "The first Greek coins began to be minted from the seventh century BC
With pictures of real animals, plants and objects useful to man.
The coins were primitive most famous owl, pegasus and the tortoise.
The turtles were the first coins to be minted in Greece, their copies
are older than 625 BC, and for a century they were dictating the laws of trade. These coins represent Egina, the flourishing commercial emporium
Peloponnese and were more valuable than the owls, worth twice: 2 drachmas (drachma - coin silver unit). "