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500 Lire - Ioannes Paulus II Peace
| Issuer | Vatican City State (Stato della Città del Vaticano) |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Weight | 11 g |
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| Obverse description | Central design depicts the enthroned Madonna and Child in a devotional composition, with the Virgin seated and the Christ Child resting upon her lap. An eight-pointed star appears in the upper left field, while the pontifical coat of arms of John Paul II is placed in the lower right field. The engraver's name VEROI is inscribed at the lower right. The surrounding legend identifies the pontiff and regnal year in Latin. |
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| Edge | Lettered (relief inscription) |
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Issued during the papacy of John Paul II, this coin was released the year the Vatican formally established diplomatic relations with Israel — a watershed moment that ended decades of non-recognition rooted in disputes over the State's legitimacy and unresolved questions about the Holy See's conduct during the Second World War. The normalization agreement, signed in December 1993, was among the most consequential diplomatic acts of Wojtyla's pontificate.