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1000 Lire Wildlife Protection
| Issuer | Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Value | 1000 Lire (1000 ITL) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | R Rome, Italy (476-date) |
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Italy's Wildlife Protection silver lire series ran through the early 1990s as a collector-focused commemorative program, with each issue highlighting a different endangered or protected species native to the Italian peninsula. The 1994 installment was struck in the final years before the lire's practical obsolescence accelerated dramatically — the Maastricht Treaty having already locked Italy into the euro convergence path by this point.
Mintage on these issues was tightly controlled and sold primarily through IPZS directly to collectors, meaning nearly the entire surviving population grades at or near issue condition.