2 Diners Pope John Paul I

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.