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1000 Lire Giordano Bruno
| Issuer | Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Weight | 14.6 g |
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| Reverse description | Central cartouche framed by an ornate shield-shaped border containing three stylised solar faces with radiating flame-like rays, a motif referencing Bruno's heliocentric philosophical vision. Below the suns, a facsimile of Giordano Bruno's signature is inscribed, accompanied by a secondary cursive inscription reading Nolano — a reference to his birthplace of Nola. The denomination LIRE 1000 appears within a banner at the top of the cartouche, and the commemorative dates 1600·2000 mark the four-hundredth anniversary of Bruno's martyrdom. The mint mark R (Rome) and the engraver's signature L. DE SIMONE are present in the lower field. |
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| Reverse lettering | Lire 1000 1600•2000 R |
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Issued to mark the fourth centenary of Bruno's execution in Rome's Campo de' Fiori on February 17, 1600 — burned at the stake by the Inquisition after eight years of imprisonment. The Italian state had previously rehabilitated Bruno's memory through a monument erected on that same square in 1889, itself a flashpoint for anticlericalist politics in newly unified Italy.
The 1000 Lire denomination places this among Italy's late silver commemorative series, issued just as the lira was being absorbed into the euro system.