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5 Liri Year of the Child, Piedfort
| Issuer | Central Bank of Malta |
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| Year | 1981 |
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| Value | 5 Pounds (Liri) (5 MTL) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Piedforts have no circulation function — they exist purely as collector artifacts, struck at double thickness on specially prepared planchets. Malta's use of the format here followed a broader European trend in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when several small nations began issuing piedforts to extract additional revenue from commemorative programs. The International Year of the Child, declared by the United Nations for 1979, generated an unusually large volume of numismatic issues globally; Malta's piedfort arrived two years after the official observance.