1082939 | GREECE. Theodoros Kolokotronis and Nikita Stamatelopoulos. 1822 (1836) Bronzed AE Medal. PCGS SP64. By Konrad Lange. 44mm. Conjoined busts of Kolokotronis and Stamatelopoulos left / Greek fighter holds a rearing horse by the reins, his dagger poised to stab into the breast of a fallen Turk. Wurzbach 4684.

From a series of 12 Greek War of Independence medals struck on the occasion of the marriage of King Otho and Queen Amelia in 1836.


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Theodoros Kolokotronis was a Greek general and the pre-eminent leader of the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire. Kolokotronis's greatest success was the defeat of the Ottoman army under Mahmud Dramali Pasha at the Battle of Dervenakia in 1822. In 1825, he was appointed commander-in-chief of the Greek forces in the Peloponnese. Today, Kolokotronis ranks among the most revered of the protagonists of Greece's War of Independence.

Nikita Stamatelopoulos, his nephew, notably fought alongside him in the Siege of Tripoli and the Battle of Dervenakia. Due to his fighting prowess, he was known as Tourkofagos, literally meaning the "Turk-Eater".