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100 Lira Les Gavroches - Pattern
| Issuer | Central Bank of Malta |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| Currency | Maltese Pound (1972-2007) |
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| Obverse description | The Maltese national coat of arms occupies the central field, depicting a coastal panorama incorporating the rising sun, a traditional Maltese fishing vessel (the luzzu), an Opuntia cactus, and a shovel and pitchfork symbolizing the working people. The arms are rendered in high relief against a plain field. The circular legend reading 'REPUBBLIKA TA' MALTA' surrounds the device, identifying the issuing state in the Maltese language. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Malta's central bank commissioned several artist-designed pattern issues during the 1970s as the young republic built its numismatic identity following independence from Britain in 1964. The "Les Gavroches" title references the archetype of the Maltese street child — a deliberate assertion of local social character in official coinage imagery at a moment when the Mintoff government was actively distancing Maltese institutions from their colonial inheritance.
Never released for circulation. Patterns of this issue are known in extremely limited numbers, struck for presentation and archival purposes only.