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50 000 Lire Bank of Italy
| Issuer | Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing bust portrait of Bonaldo Stringher, first Governor of the Bank of Italy (1928-1930), rendered in high relief with his facsimile signature inscribed below the effigy. The monogram of the Bank of Italy appears in the lower field. The legend REPVBBLICA ITALIANA arcs along the upper periphery in Roman lettering. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPVBBLICA ITALIANA Bonaldo Stringher (Translation: Italian Republic) |
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This issue belongs to the annual gold proof series the Zecca began producing in the early 1980s, aimed squarely at the collector market rather than circulation — no 50,000 lire coin ever traded hands in a Roman bar. By 1993, Italy was lurching through the Tangentopoli corruption investigations that would dissolve the First Republic entirely, taking most of the political establishment with them. Mintages in this series were deliberately kept low to sustain collector premiums.
The .900 fineness follows the standard established for Italian commemorative gold under post-war republic coinage law.