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500 Lire - Ioannes Paulus II Receive Peace and Salvation
| Issuer | Vatican City State |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed portrait bust of Pope John Paul II facing right, set within the bronzital centre of the bimetallic flan, engraver's initial G below the truncation. The encircling acmonital ring bears the Latin legend around the full circumference, with the pontifical year in Roman numerals and the Gregorian year. |
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| Reverse description | Within the bronzital centre, a standing figure extends an olive branch downward toward a kneeling figure entangled in thorns, symbolising the offering of peace and salvation; the engravers' signatures L. DE SIMONI INC. and G. TITOTTO appear in the lower field. The denomination L. 500 is inscribed along the lower portion of the ring, while CITTA' DEL VATICANO arcs across the upper ring. |
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| Edge | Segmented reeding |
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