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100 Lire - Ioannes Paulus II Feed The Hungry
| Issuer | Vatican City State |
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| Year | 1981 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Left-facing bust of Pope John Paul II depicted in plain ecclesiastical vestments, rendered in a bold, high-relief engraving style by Guido Veroi, whose name appears incuse in the lower field. The circular Latin legend arcs along the upper periphery reading IOANNES PAVLVS II P.M. AN.III, while the Roman numeral date MCMLXXXI runs vertically along the right field. |
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| Mintage | 1981 R - AN. III - 426,000 1981 R - AN. III (In sets only) - 124,000 |
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The 1981 Vatican coin series was issued under the shadow of an assassination attempt on John Paul II in St. Peter's Square that May — yet production continued on schedule, the FAO-linked "Feed the Hungry" theme carrying particular resonance for a pope who had made hunger and global poverty central to his public addresses since his 1979 visit to Mexico. The FAO series, which the Vatican had participated in since the early 1970s, tied papal coinage directly to United Nations agricultural initiatives — an unusual alignment of ecclesiastical and intergovernmental messaging on circulating metal.