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50 Lire Pierre and Marie Curie
| Issuer | San Marino State Mint |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Value | 50 Lire (50 SML) |
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| Reverse description | Conjoined portrait busts of Pierre and Marie Curie occupy the central field, rendered in an expressive, painterly low relief characteristic of engraver Sergio Grossi's style. Pierre is depicted to the left with a bearded profile, while Marie appears to his right in three-quarter view; their hands are shown clasped together in the lower centre of the field. The legend PIERRE E MARIE CURIE curves along the upper rim, with the denomination L. 50 positioned to the right field and the mint mark R to its lower right. The date 1984 is inscribed in the lower exergue, and the engraver's signature GROSSI appears in small characters to the lower left of the design. |
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| Reverse lettering | PIERRE E MARIE CURIE L. 50 R 1984 |
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San Marino issued this coin in the same year UNESCO designated 1984 as part of its broader commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Marie Curie's death. Pierre had died in 1906 — struck by a horse-drawn wagon on a Paris street — leaving Marie to continue their shared research alone, eventually becoming the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two separate sciences.