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10 Euros Innu Malti
| Issuer | Central Bank of Malta |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#238 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, designed and engraved by Noel Galea Bason (whose monogram NGB appears to the left), commemorates the centenary of the Maltese National Anthem, the Innu Malti, first performed in 1922. The central field features portrait busts of the anthem's composer Mro. Robert Samut and its lyricist Dun Karm Psaila, accompanied by a musical score in the lower portion of the field. The face value 10 EURO and the date 2022 are inscribed in the lower field beneath the portraits. Along the upper rim, the commemorative legend L-INNU MALTI JINDAQQ L-EWWEL DARBA • 1922-2022 • arcs the design, while opening lines of the anthem's text appear in the lower field. |
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Issued as part of Malta's ongoing cultural heritage series, this coin commemorates the Maltese language — one of the few Semitic languages written in a Latin script and the only one holding official EU status. Maltese evolved from Siculo-Arabic, the dialect spoken in Sicily and Malta following Arab settlement in the ninth century, layered over centuries with Norman French, Italian, and English. The language survived repeated colonial rule largely because it remained the spoken tongue of the rural population while administrators wrote in other languages.