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50 Euros European Writers - Dun Karm Psaila
| Issuer | Central Bank of Malta |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Value | 50 Euros |
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| Obverse description | The Maltese coat of arms is depicted centrally, featuring a quartered shield surmounted by a mural crown and flanked by two olive branches tied at the base. The shield bears the traditional Maltese cross on a striped field. The legend 'MALTA' arcs along the upper left field and '2013' along the upper right, with a ring of thirteen stars surrounding the entire design near the rim, referencing the European Union. |
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| Obverse lettering | MALTA REPUBBLIKA TA` MALTA 2013 (Translation: Republic of Malta) |
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Dun Karm Psaila, a Catholic priest who wrote in Maltese at a time when the language itself was contested, is now recognized as Malta's national poet — though that designation came only after decades of debate over whether Maltese, a Semitic language written in a Latin script, deserved literary standing at all. His adoption of the vernacular over Italian was a deliberate cultural act during a period when the British colonial administration and the local educated class were still fighting the Language Question, settled only in 1934 when Maltese was finally granted official status alongside English.