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200 Lire Threat of Nuclear War
| Issuer | Republic of San Marino |
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| Year | 1983 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#152 |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBBLICA DI SAN·MARINO LIBERTAS |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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San Marino issued this piece in 1983 at the height of NATO's Pershing II missile deployment debate in Western Europe — a political moment that directly prompted several small states to issue explicit anti-nuclear coinage. That year, the Soviet Union walked out of the INF arms reduction talks in Geneva following the West German Bundestag's vote to allow deployment, and public protest across Europe reached its postwar peak.
San Marino's anti-nuclear series from this period is one of the few instances of a sovereign mint using its coinage program as a vehicle for direct political advocacy on a specific geopolitical crisis rather than abstract peace themes.