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50 Lire - Ioannes Paulus II Justice
| Issuer | Vatican City State |
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| Year | 1979-1980 |
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| In circulation to | 1 March 2002 |
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| Reverse description | Allegorical figure of Justice seated facing, wearing a crown and flowing robes, holding an upright sword in her raised right hand and a laurel wreath in her lowered left hand. Two additional laurel wreaths are displayed beneath the left hand. The denomination L. 50 appears in the field, flanked by the inscription CITTA DEL VATICANO along the upper legend and IVSTITIA below the central figure. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Struck across two fiscal years under John Paul II's first full pontifical budget cycle, this issue falls within a period of extraordinary political tension — the Pope had returned to Poland in June 1979, a visit widely credited with catalyzing the Solidarity movement that would emerge the following year. The Vatican mint continued producing the annual devotional series regardless, its schedule indifferent to geopolitics.
Acmonital, the stainless steel alloy adopted by the Italian Republic in the postwar decades, was carried over into Vatican coinage to maintain interchangeability with Italian lira denominations still in circulation under the Lateran Treaty monetary arrangements.