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200 Lire - Ioannes Paulus II The North helps the South
| Issuer | Vatican City State |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Composition | Bronzital |
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| Reverse description | An allegorical composition divided by a horizontal line into two hemispheres representing the global North and South. The upper half depicts stylized urban architecture symbolising the wealthy industrialised North, with a male figure kneeling at the dividing line extending his hand downward. The lower half represents the poorer southern world with land and sea, where a second male figure is assisted in rising by the figure above. The denomination L.200 appears in the field, with the mint mark R and engravers' signatures BORGHI and DE SIMONI flanking the design elements. |
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| Reverse lettering | CITTA` DEL VATICANO NORD SUD R L.200 .q BORGHI R L.DE SIMONINC. (Translation: Vatican City) |
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By 1998, the 200 lire coin had less than four years left as legal tender — Italy's lira was formally replaced by the euro in 2002, making late issues like this one largely ceremonial in practice. This particular piece belongs to a Vatican annual proof set themed around social solidarity, reflecting John Paul II's persistent focus on economic inequality between industrialized northern nations and the developing south — a geopolitical divide he addressed repeatedly in his encyclicals, most directly in Sollicitudo Rei Socialis (1987).