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2 Liri Alfonso Maria Galea
| Issuer | Malta |
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| Year | 1975 |
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| Value | 2 Pounds (2 MTL) |
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| Reverse description | A left-facing draped bust portrait of Alfonso Maria Galea occupies the central field, rendered in fine relief with naturalistic detail of his facial features and attire. The subject's birth and death years, 1861 and 1941, are inscribed in two lines to the lower right of the portrait. The denomination lM2 appears to the lower left, and the date 1975 is inscribed along the lower rim. The legend ALFONSO MARIA GALEA arcs across the upper periphery in Latin script. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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This piece was struck as part of Malta's first commemorative series following independence from Britain in 1964 and the subsequent declaration of a republic in 1974. The Galea — a traditional Maltese fishing boat — held particular national significance in the mid-1970s as the government under Dom Mintoff pursued a policy of assertive non-alignment, deliberately anchoring Maltese identity in indigenous cultural symbols rather than colonial ones.
The .987 fineness is notably purer than the .925 standard common to most contemporary silver issues, a deliberate specification by the Central Bank of Malta for this inaugural collector series.