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2 Diners Pope John Paul I
| Issuer | Andorra |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Value | 2 Diners (2 ADD) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The copper-nickel centre field depicts a facing portrait bust of Pope John Paul I, shown in papal vestments with a calm and distinguished expression. The portrait is rendered in moderate relief in a realistic style. The brass outer ring carries the inscription JOAN PAU I arcing across the upper portion, with the year of his pontificate 1978 appearing below the portrait within or near the lower field. |
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Pope John Paul I reigned for 33 days in 1978 — the shortest pontificate of the 20th century — and died under circumstances that prompted persistent, unresolved speculation about foul play. Andorra, a co-principality whose Catholic Bishop of Urgell serves as one of its two co-princes, has a genuine constitutional stake in papal history that most coin-issuing states lack. This commemorative appeared nearly three decades after his death.