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2 Lire - Ioannes XXIII
| Issuer | Vatican City State |
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| Year | 1959-1962 |
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| Diameter | 18 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The allegorical figure of Fortitude, one of the four Cardinal Virtues, is depicted seated and facing slightly left, wearing papal vestments and a mitre, holding a long staff or sceptre upright in her right hand, with a lion resting at her side. The denomination L·2 appears to the left of the figure, and the year of issue to the right. The inscribed tablet at the base of the composition bears the word FORTITUDO. The surrounding legend CITTA DEL VATICANO encircles the upper portion of the field in incuse Roman capitals. |
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| Reverse lettering | CITTA` DEL VATICANO L·2 1960 |
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