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5 Lire Struggle against Drug Abuse
| Issuer | San Marino |
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| Year | 1985 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#175 |
| Obverse description | Central design depicts the three towers of San Marino (Guaita, Cesta, and Montale) atop Monte Titano, rendered in a stylised, angular artistic style. A sunburst motif appears to the left of the towers in the field. The word LIBERTAS is inscribed below the towers. The circular legend REPVBBLICA DI SAN MARINO runs around the periphery, with a decorative floral or foliate ornament at the base. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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San Marino's annual coinage program in the 1980s used its tiny mintage runs as a vehicle for UN-aligned social campaigns, with drug abuse awareness among the themes rotated through the five-lire denomination during this period. By 1985 the aluminium five-lire piece had essentially no purchasing power within San Marino itself — the denomination survived purely as a collectible artifact, struck in quantities low enough that circulation wear is almost never the reason a specimen degrades.