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| Issuer | Central Bank of Malta |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Value | 10 Euros |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | 40 ANNIVERSARJU • MALTA REPUBBLIKA • 13 TA' DICEMBRU 1974 - 2014 10 EURO NGB |
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Malta became a republic on December 13, 1974, severing its last constitutional ties to the British Crown without a referendum — the change was pushed through parliament by Dom Mintoff's Labour government in a single sitting. The transition was contentious enough that the opposition Nationalist Party boycotted the vote entirely.
By 2014, Malta had been an EU member for a decade and had adopted the euro for six years, making this silver commemorative an exercise in looking backward at a rupture that still divides Maltese political memory.