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10 Lire - Pavlvs VI FAO
| Issuer | Vatican City |
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| Year | 1968 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Left-facing draped bust of Pope Paul VI wearing a zucchetto and papal vestments, rendered in a clean modernist style. The legend PAVLVS VI arcs along the upper left field and P MAX A VI along the upper right field, denoting his pontifical title and regnal year. The engravers' signatures G. PIRRONE - MONASSI INC. appear in small capitals along the lower rim beneath the portrait. |
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| Mintage | ND (1968) - (fr) An.VI - millésime unique - 110,000 |
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Issued as part of the FAO's Freedom from Hunger campaign, this piece belongs to a coordinated global coinage effort that saw dozens of countries mint FAO-themed coins simultaneously in the late 1960s — an unusual moment of numismatic internationalism driven by the UN's push to make agricultural development politically visible. The Vatican's participation was partly a gesture of alignment between Paul VI and the FAO's Rome-based headquarters, a proximity that made the collaboration almost inevitable.