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2 Lire - Pivs XI
| Issuer | Vatican City |
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| Year | 1929-1937 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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These issues correspond directly to the Lateran Treaty period — the 1929 Concordat between the Holy See and Mussolini's government finally resolved the "Roman Question" that had left the papacy without recognized temporal sovereignty since 1870. Vatican City's coinage program launched immediately as a practical expression of the newly established state, making KM#6 among the earliest coins struck under Vatican authority as a recognized political entity.
Nickel was a deliberate choice tied to Italian monetary alignment, mirroring the Regno d'Italia's coinage metals of the same period.