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100 Lira Les Gavroches
| Issuer | Central Bank of Malta |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| Currency | Lira (1972-2007) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The "Les Gavroches" title refers to street children — the term drawn from Victor Hugo's urchin character in *Les Misérables* — and this issue was part of Malta's ambitious series of gold collector coins produced in the mid-to-late 1970s under the presidency of Anton Buttigieg. Malta had only established its Central Bank in 1968, and the collector coin program was a deliberate hard-currency earner during a period when the island was navigating non-aligned foreign policy under Dom Mintoff's Labour government.
KM#50 was struck at the Royal Mint on behalf of the Central Bank, with mintage capped at 3,000 pieces.