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10 Lire - Ioannes Paulus II Adam and Eve's Temptation
| Issuer | Vatican City State |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Engraver(s) | Guido Veroi |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Adam and Eve standing nude on either side of the Tree of Knowledge, around which the serpent is coiled. Eve is depicted in the act of reaching for the forbidden fruit, while Adam stands in witness. The scene is rendered in a classical figurative style within a plain field, with the denomination L.10 and mint mark R flanking the lower portion of the design, and the legend CITTA DEL VATICANO arcing along the upper periphery. |
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By 1988, the Vatican's annual coin sets had become a reliable vehicle for thematic biblical programming, with each denomination assigned a distinct scriptural subject within a unified yearly series. That year's set took its theme from Genesis, placing the Fall narrative on the smallest aluminum piece in circulation. John Paul II's papacy leaned heavily into catechetical iconography across its official issues, a deliberate counterpoint to what the Vatican saw as secular drift in Western culture during the 1980s.
Aluminum lire of this period circulated widely in Italy under the parallel monetary arrangement that gave Vatican issues legal tender status throughout the country until Italian lira abolition in 2002.