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10 Diners Pope John Paul II
| Issuer | Principality of Andorra |
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| Year | 2010 |
| Type | Collector coin |
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| Reverse description | Finely modelled bare-headed portrait bust of Pope John Paul II facing slightly left, rendered in frosted cameo relief within a deep recessed oval cartouche. The portrait is framed by an elaborate rectangular border of intricate scrollwork and engine-turned stippled ground, evoking the aesthetic of a postage stamp vignette. Below the decorative frame, the pontifical name appears in facsimile script signature: Joannes Paulus pp. II. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Andorra has issued papal coinage since the 1980s, a practice rooted in the co-principality's unusual constitutional arrangement: the Bishop of Urgell serves as one of two co-princes, giving the Catholic Church a direct governing role unique among European states. John Paul II died in April 2005, making this 2010 issue a retrospective commemorative rather than a regnant portrait — struck five years after his death and four years before his canonization under Francis in 2014.