COVER N.151 - GREECE

Postmark: Illegible
Posted on ?: received on the 16th August 2022
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Greece, the country that invented  Democracy, the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…as Churchill once qualified it....

Ευχαριστώ so much, George, for such a nice addition to my cover Atlas, in which a new label can thus be added. Also a great many thanks for all the nice covers included. Much appreciated.

Stamps left to right:

The 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games took place one again where it all started, Athens, between June the 25th and July the 4th.

Calling on the attention of philatelists and public in general to the forthcoming event,  Hellenic Post issued  on 18MAR2011 a five stamp set dedicated to the event, the lowest value stamp of which (0,02 €) highlighting the Games' Volunteers Program can be seen on my cover.

The fiftieth anniversary of the Agricultural bank of Greece, established in 1929 and since 2013 integrated into the Piraeus Bank, in the wake of the crisis the swept through the banking system, particularly in Southern Europe,  was celebrated with this 3 drachma stamp issued by the Hellenic Post on 24NOV1979, that is illustrated with the bank's logo and a line drawing of its headquarters.

On 14JUL1980, the Hellenic Post issued a six stamp set (4, 6, 8, 10, 14, 20 Drachma) celebrating national anniversaries and events. The 8 Drachma stamp on my cover remembers the Theriso revolt  which took place between 23 March – 25 November 1905, an instrumental step towards the integration of Crete (then under Ottoman suzerainty) into the Hellenic Republic, something that would occur in 1906 but would only be internationally acknowledged in 1913.

The very fisr stamp emission of 2015 of the Hellenic Post was a set of five stamps (0,01; 0,20; 050; 0,72 and 2,62€) dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of the ESIEA - Journalists Union of Athens Daily Newspapers, a Trade Union established in 1914. each stamp, with the exception of the highest value one, which bears what I'd think is the logo of the Union and a quote in greek, which unfortunately I cannot decipher, is illustrated with the effigies of what I also believe are journalists well known to the Greek Community. Om my particular stamp these are Pavlos Palaeologos and Dimitris Psathas 

The postmarks., unfortunately are completely illegible.