5 Liri Dwejra II

Dwejra on Gozo's western coast was the subject of two separate 5 Liri commemorative silver issues, this being the second. Malta's commemorative silver program of the 1980s was closely tied to the government's effort to build foreign exchange reserves through numismatic sales, a strategy aggressively pursued by the Central Bank following the 1979 severance of the island's financial relationship with Britain and Libya.

KM#86 is frequently confused with its predecessor in dealer listings. The two issues share the Dwejra subject but differ in design treatment — distinguishing them by KM number rather than description alone is advisable.