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1000 Lire - Ioannes Paulus II Children and Church
| Issuer | Vatican City State |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Value | 1000 Lire (1000 VAL) |
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| Obverse description | Pope John Paul II is depicted standing at a balcony parapet flanked by two children, all three figures shown releasing doves into flight above them. The composition is rendered in high relief with radiating lines in the field suggesting light or divine presence. The pontifical tiara symbol appears in the lower exergue. The circular legend reads IOANNES PAVLVS II P.M. AN XVIII along the upper arc, with MCMXCVI along the lower right arc. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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By 1996, John Paul II had been pushing his "new evangelization" agenda for nearly two decades, framing youth outreach as the Church's central institutional priority. The Holy See's annual commemorative lire issues from this period were among the last before Vatican coinage was redesigned for euro compatibility — the lira series ended definitively in 2001 with Italian monetary union.
KM#278 is a one-year type with no known die varieties of note.