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200 Lire - Ioannes Paulus II Tables of the law
| Issuer | Vatican City State |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Thickness | 1.65 mm |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1993 R - A. XV - 41,000 |
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By 1993, Vatican coinage had settled into an annual commemorative cycle tied loosely to papal themes, with the 200 Lire denomination struck in Bronzital — an aluminum-bronze alloy developed in Italy during the postwar decades as a cost-effective replacement for earlier base metal compositions. This particular issue falls within the fifteenth year of John Paul II's pontificate, a period when the Vatican mint was producing relatively modest annual sets with no particular urgency driving the series.
Italian lira inflation had by this point so eroded the 200 Lire's purchasing power that these pieces circulated minimally even outside Vatican walls.