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20 Lire - Pavlvs VI
| Issuer | Vatican City |
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| Year | 1970-1977 |
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| Currency | Lira (1929-2001) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a red deer (Cervus elaphus) standing in profile in the central field, rendered in fine relief against a naturalistic landscape with a waterfall in the background. The inscription CITTA DEL VATICANO arcs around the upper rim, with individual words separated by asterisks. The denomination L.20 is positioned in the lower portion of the field. The composition is characteristic of the Vatican annual coin series, which regularly featured wildlife and nature subjects during the pontificate of Paul VI. |
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Paul VI issued this coin during one of the most turbulent stretches of his pontificate — the years following Humanae Vitae (1968), which had fractured Catholic opinion worldwide and left him increasingly isolated within his own institution. The Vatican's coinage program continued without interruption, but the period was marked by a pope who largely withdrew from public life, skipping the traditional Urbi et Orbi blessing for years at a stretch.
KM#120 ran across eight years with consistent dies — longer than most Vatican types of the period.