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20 Lire Threat of Nuclear War
| Issuer | San Marino |
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| Year | 1983 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | L.20 1983 R A·FABBRI |
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San Marino issued a series of anti-nuclear themed coins in the early 1980s as NATO's deployment of Pershing II missiles in Western Europe brought superpower tensions to their sharpest point since the Cuban Missile Crisis. The 1983 date is not incidental — it coincides almost exactly with the NATO Able Archer 83 exercise, which Soviet intelligence briefly misread as preparation for an actual first strike.
The enclave's coinages from this period were produced primarily for collectors rather than circulation, a fiscal strategy San Marino had refined since the 1970s to generate revenue through its philatelic and numismatic bureau.