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20 Lire - Ioannes Pavlvs II The Work
| Issuer | Vatican City State |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse lettering | CITTA` DEL VATICANO L 20 |
| Edge | Plain |
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This piece belongs to the Vatican's annual divisional sets of 1999, issued under John Paul II during the lead-up to the Jubilee Year 2000 — a period the Holy See treated as a major institutional and spiritual occasion, producing an unusually rich run of commemorative coinage through the late 1990s. The aluminium bronze 20 Lire denomination had long been effectively demonetized in practical terms by this point; Italian lira inflation had rendered small-denomination coins useless in daily commerce, and these late issues were produced almost exclusively for collector sets rather than circulation.
Italy's adoption of the euro in 2002 rendered the entire lira-denominated Vatican series obsolete, making 1999 one of the final years of this long-running format.