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ID Number: | MC10-0404 |
Description: | 50 Lire (Holy Year - The Peace of the Lord) |
Country or State: | Vatican City (Città del Vaticano) |
Year: | 1975 (Year XIII) |
Head of State/Ruler: | Paulus VI (Full Name: Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini) |
Reign: | 21 June 1963 - 6 August 1978 (15 years, 46 days) |
Currency: | Lira |
Obverse: | Crowned shield surrounded by denomination and date (Roman: MCMLXXV) |
Obverse Legend: | • PAVLVS • VI • P. M. • AN IVB • MCMLXXV • |
Reverse: | Stylized figure in fetal position within design with hand above |
Reverse Legend: | CITTÀ DEL VATICANO. L.50 |
Designer: | Guido Veroi |
Edge: | Reeded |
Note: | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
Composition: | Acmonital (Ac) |
Diameter: | 24.8 mm |
Thickness: | 2 mm |
Weight: | 6.20 grams |
Mintage: | 500,000 |
Catalog Number: | KM# 129 |
Paul VI reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978. Succeeding Pope John XXIII, who had convened the Second Vatican Council, he decided to continue it. He fostered improved ecumenical relations with Orthodox and Protestants, which resulted in many historic meetings and agreements. Paul VI sought dialogue with the world, with other Christians, other religions, and atheists, excluding nobody. He saw himself as a humble servant for a suffering humanity and demanded significant changes of the rich in America and Europe in favour of the poor in the Third World. His positions on birth control and other issues were controversial in Western Europe and North America, but were applauded by people in Eastern and Southern Europe and Latin America. |
ID Number: | MC10-0404 |
Description: | 50 Lire (Holy Year - The Peace of the Lord) |
Country or State: | Vatican City (Città del Vaticano) |
Year: | 1975 (Year XIII) |
Head of State/Ruler: | Paulus VI (Full Name: Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini) |
Reign: | 21 June 1963 - 6 August 1978 (15 years, 46 days) |
Currency: | Lira |
Obverse: | Crowned shield surrounded by denomination and date (Roman: MCMLXXV) |
Obverse Legend: | • PAVLVS • VI • P. M. • AN IVB • MCMLXXV • |
Reverse: | Stylized figure in fetal position within design with hand above |
Reverse Legend: | CITTÀ DEL VATICANO. L.50 |
Designer: | Guido Veroi |
Edge: | Reeded |
Note: | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
Composition: | Acmonital (Ac) |
Diameter: | 24.8 mm |
Thickness: | 2 mm |
Weight: | 6.20 grams |
Mintage: | 500,000 |
Catalog Number: | KM# 129 |
Paul VI reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978. Succeeding Pope John XXIII, who had convened the Second Vatican Council, he decided to continue it. He fostered improved ecumenical relations with Orthodox and Protestants, which resulted in many historic meetings and agreements. Paul VI sought dialogue with the world, with other Christians, other religions, and atheists, excluding nobody. He saw himself as a humble servant for a suffering humanity and demanded significant changes of the rich in America and Europe in favour of the poor in the Third World. His positions on birth control and other issues were controversial in Western Europe and North America, but were applauded by people in Eastern and Southern Europe and Latin America. |
ID Number: | MC10-0303 |
Description: | 1 Lira |
Country or State: | Vatican City (Città del Vaticano) |
Year: | 1930 (Year IX) |
Head of State/Ruler: | Pius XI (Full Name: Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti) |
Reign: | 6 February 1922 - 10 February 1939 (17 years, 4 days) |
Currency: | Lira |
Obverse: | Crowned Arms, divided date below |
Obverse Legend: | PIVS • XI • PONT. • MAX. • AN • IX |
Reverse: | Virgin Mary standing on globe and crescent, value aside |
Reverse Legend: | STATO DELLA CITTÀ DEL VATICANO. LIRE 1 |
Edge: | Reeded |
Engraver: | Aurelio Mistruzzi |
Orientation: | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
Composition: | Nickel (Ni) 97.5 % |
Diameter: | 26.5 mm |
Weight: | 8.00 grams |
Mintage: | 80,000 |
Catalog Number: | KM# 5; G# 39 |
Pope Pius XI was Pope from 6 February 1922, and sovereign of Vatican City from its creation as an independent state on 11 February 1929 until his death on 10 February 1939. He issued numerous encyclicals including Quadragesimo Anno highlighting capitalistic of international finance, social justice issues and Quas Primas establishing the feast of Christ the King. He took as his papal motto "Christ's peace in Christ's kingdom". |
ID Number: | MC10-0304 |
Description: | 10 Lire |
Country or State: | Vatican City (Città del Vaticano) |
Year: | 1932 (Year XI) |
Head of State/Ruler: | Pius XI (Full Name: Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti) |
Reign: | 6 February 1922 - 10 February 1939 (17 years, 4 days) |
Currency: | Lira |
Obverse: | Bust left surrounded by denomination |
Obverse Legend: | PIVS • XI • PONT. • MAX. • A • XI |
Reverse: | Mary, Queen of Peace holding infant, value below, surrounded by denomination |
Reverse Legend: | STATO DELLA CITTÀ DEL VATICANO. L. 10, REGINA PACIS |
Edge: | P C I R C (Inscription); Translation: PAX CHRISTI IN REGNO CHRISTI |
Engraver: | Aurelio Mistruzzi |
Orientation: | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
Composition: | Silver (Ag) 0.8350 |
Diameter: | 27.0 mm |
Weight: | 10.0000 grams (0.2684 oz.) |
Mintage: | 50,000 |
Catalog Number: | KM# 8; G# 14 |
Pope Pius XI was Pope from 6 February 1922, and sovereign of Vatican City from its creation as an independent state on 11 February 1929 until his death on 10 February 1939. He issued numerous encyclicals including Quadragesimo Anno highlighting capitalisticof international finance, social justice issues and Quas Primas establishing the feast of Christ the King. He took as his papal motto "Christ's peace in Christ's kingdom". |
ID Number: | MC10-0503 |
Description: | 10 Lire |
Country or State: | Vatican City (Città del Vaticano) |
Year: | 1953 (Year XV) |
Pope: | Pius XII (Full Name: Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli) |
Papacy: | 2 March 1939 - 9 October 1958 (19 years, 221 days) |
Currency: | Lira (1929-2001) |
Obverse: | Bust left surrounded by denomination |
Obverse Legend: | PIVS • XII • P • M • AN • XV |
Reverse: | Prudence standing left, date on the left, value on the right |
Reverse Legend: | CITTÀ DEL VATICANO, L•10, PRVDENTIA |
Edge: | Smooth |
Designer: | Pietro Giampaoli |
Orientation: | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
Composition: | Italma (It) |
Diameter: | 23.4 mm |
Thickness: | 1.8 mm |
Weight: | 1.6 grams |
Mintage: | 1,130,000 |
Catalog Number: | KM# 52.1, Gigante: 141; Pagani: 749 |
Pope Pius XII reigned as Pope, head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City State, from 2 March 1939 until his death in 1958. Before election to the papacy, Pacelli served as secretary of the Department of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, and Cardinal Secretary of State, in which capacity he worked to conclude treaties with European and Latin American nations, most notably the Reichskonkordat with Nazi Germany. His leadership of the Catholic Church during World War II remains the subject of continued historical controversy. After the war Pius XII advocated peace and reconciliation, including lenient policies towards Axis and Axis-satellite nations. The Church experienced severe persecution and mass deportations of Catholic clergy in the Eastern Bloc. In light of his overt involvement in Italian politics – anyone who voted for a Communist candidate in the 1948 elections was threatened with automatic excommunication – Pacelli became known as a staunch opponent of the Italian Communist Party. Prudence (Latin: prudentia, contracted from providentia meaning "seeing ahead, sagacity") is the ability to govern and discipline oneself by the use of reason. It is classically considered to be a virtue, and in particular one of the four Cardinal virtues (which are, with the three theological virtues, part of the seven virtues). Prudentia is an allegorical female personification of the virtue, whose attributes are a mirror and snake, who is frequently depicted as a pair with Justitia, the Roman goddess of Justice. The word derives from the 14th-century Old French word prudence, which, in turn, derives from the Latin prudentia meaning "foresight, sagacity". It is often associated with wisdom, insight, and knowledge. In this case, the virtue is the ability to judge between virtuous and vicious actions, not only in a general sense, but with regard to appropriate actions at a given time and place. Although prudence itself does not perform any actions, and is concerned solely with knowledge, all virtues had to be regulated by it. Distinguishing when acts are courageous, as opposed to reckless or cowardly, is an act of prudence, and for this reason it is classified as a cardinal (pivotal) virtue. In modern English, the word has become increasingly synonymous with cautiousness. In this sense, prudence names a reluctance to take risks, which remains a virtue with respect to unnecessary risks, but, when unreasonably extended into over-cautiousness, can become the vice of cowardice. In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle gives a lengthy account of the virtue phronesis (Ancient Greek: ϕρόνησις), traditionally translated as "prudence", although this has become increasingly problematic as the word has fallen out of common usage. More recently ϕρόνησις has been translated by such terms as "practical wisdom", "practical judgment" or "rational choice". |
ID Number: | YB27-0501 |
Description: | 100 Lire |
Country or State: | Vatican City (Città del Vaticano) |
Year: | 1955 (Year XVII) |
Pope: | Pius XII (Full Name: Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli) |
Papacy: | 2 March 1939 - 9 October 1958 (19 years, 221 days) |
Currency: | Lira (1929-2001) |
Obverse: | Pius XII facing left surrounded by denomination |
Obverse Legend: | PIVS·XII·P·M·AN·XVII, GIAMPAOLI |
Reverse: | Fides standing with large cross divides value and date |
Reverse Legend: | CITTÀ DEL VATICANO. L•100, 1955, FIDES |
Edge: | Reeded |
Designer: | Pietro Giampaoli |
Orientation: | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
Composition: | Acmonital (Ac) |
Diameter: | 27.75 mm |
Thickness: | 2.0 mm |
Weight: | 8.00 grams |
Mintage: | 1,300,000 |
Catalog Number: | KM# 55, Gigante: 117; Pagani: 725 |
Pope Pius XII reigned as Pope, head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City State, from 2 March 1939 until his death in 1958. Before election to the papacy, Pacelli served as secretary of the Department of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, and Cardinal Secretary of State, in which capacity he worked to conclude treaties with European and Latin American nations, most notably the Reichskonkordat with Nazi Germany. His leadership of the Catholic Church during World War II remains the subject of continued historical controversy. After the war Pius XII advocated peace and reconciliation, including lenient policies towards Axis and Axis-satellite nations. The Church experienced severe persecution and mass deportations of Catholic clergy in the Eastern Bloc. In light of his overt involvement in Italian politics – anyone who voted for a Communist candidate in the 1948 elections was threatened with automatic excommunication – Pacelli became known as a staunch opponent of the Italian Communist Party. Faith, derived from Latin fides and Old French feid is confidence or trust in a person, thing, or concept. In the context of religion, one can define faith as "belief in God or in the doctrines or teachings of religion". Religious people often think of faith as confidence based on a perceived degree of warrant, while others who are more skeptical of religion tend to think of faith as simply belief without evidence. |
ID Number: | DB03-0336 |
Description: | 100 Lire |
Country or State: | Vatican City (Città del Vaticano) |
Year: | 1964 (Year II) |
Head of State/Ruler: | Paulus VI (Full Name: Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini) |
Reign: | 21 June 1963 - 6 August 1978 (15 years, 46 days) |
Currency: | Lira (1929-2001) |
Obverse: | Bust left surrounded by denomination |
Obverse Legend: | PAVLVS • VI • PONT. • MAX. • A • II |
Reverse: | Fides standing with large cross divides value and date |
Reverse Legend: | CITTÀ DEL VATICANO. L•100, 1964, FIDES |
Edge: | Reeded |
Orientation: | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
Composition: | Acmonital (Ac) |
Diameter: | 27.75 mm |
Thickness: | 2.0 mm |
Weight: | 8.00 grams |
Mintage: | 558,000 |
Catalog Number: | KM# 82.2 |
Paul VI reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978. Succeeding Pope John XXIII, who had convened the Second Vatican Council, he decided to continue it. He fostered improved ecumenical relations with Orthodox and Protestants, which resulted in many historic meetings and agreements. Paul VI sought dialogue with the world, with other Christians, other religions, and atheists, excluding nobody. He saw himself as a humble servant for a suffering humanity and demanded significant changes of the rich in America and Europe in favour of the poor in the Third World. His positions on birth control and other issues were controversial in Western Europe and North America, but were applauded by people in Eastern and Southern Europe and Latin America. Faith, derived from Latin fides and Old French feid is confidence or trust in a person, thing, or concept. In the context of religion, one can define faith as "belief in God or in the doctrines or teachings of religion". Religious people often think of faith as confidence based on a perceived degree of warrant, while others who are more skeptical of religion tend to think of faith as simply belief without evidence. |
ID Number: | MC10-0504 |
Description: | 5 Lire |
Country or State: | Vatican City (Città del Vaticano) |
Year: | 1952 (Year XIV) |
Pope: | Pius XII (Full Name: Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli) |
Papacy: | 2 March 1939 - 9 October 1958 (19 years, 221 days) |
Currency: | Lira (1929-2001) |
Obverse: | Bust of Pope Pius XII right |
Obverse Legend: | PIVS • XII • P • M • AN • XIV |
Reverse: | Justice standing with sword and scales. Date on left, value on right |
Reverse Legend: | CITTÀ DEL VATICANO. 1952, L•5, IVSTITIA |
Edge: | Smooth |
Designer: | Pietro Giampaoli |
Orientation: | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
Composition: | Italma (It) |
Diameter: | 20.2 mm |
Thickness: | 1.6 mm |
Weight: | 1.00 gram |
Mintage: | 1,500,000 |
Catalog Number: | KM# 51.1, Gigante: 159; Pagani: 767 |
Pope Pius XII reigned as Pope, head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City State, from 2 March 1939 until his death in 1958. Before election to the papacy, Pacelli served as secretary of the Department of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, and Cardinal Secretary of State, in which capacity he worked to conclude treaties with European and Latin American nations, most notably the Reichskonkordat with Nazi Germany. His leadership of the Catholic Church during World War II remains the subject of continued historical controversy. After the war Pius XII advocated peace and reconciliation, including lenient policies towards Axis and Axis-satellite nations. The Church experienced severe persecution and mass deportations of Catholic clergy in the Eastern Bloc. In light of his overt involvement in Italian politics – anyone who voted for a Communist candidate in the 1948 elections was threatened with automatic excommunication – Pacelli became known as a staunch opponent of the Italian Communist Party. Lady Justice (Latin: Iustitia) is an allegorical personification of the moral force in judicial systems. Her attributes are a blindfold, scales, and a sword. She often appears as a pair with Prudentia. Lady Justice originates from the personification of Justice in Ancient Roman art known as Iustitia or Justitia, who is equivalent to the Greek goddess Dike. The origin of Lady Justice was Justitia, the goddess of Justice within Roman mythology. Justitia was introduced by emperor Augustus, and was thus not a very old deity in the Roman pantheon. Justice was one of the virtues celebrated by emperor Augustus in his clipeus virtutis, and a temple of Iustitia was established in Rome by emperor Tiberius. Iustitia became a symbol for the virtue of justice with which every emperor wished to associate his regime; emperor Vespasian minted coins with the image of the goddess seated on a throne called Iustitia Augusta, and many emperors after him used the image of the goddess to proclaim themselves protectors of justice. Though formally called a goddess with her own temple and cult shrine in Rome, it appears that she was from the onset viewed more as an artistic symbolic personification rather than as an actual deity with religious significance. |
ID Number: | MC10-0403 |
Description: | 50 Lire |
Country or State: | Vatican City (Città del Vaticano) |
Year: | 1975 (Year XIII) |
Pope: | Paulus VI (Full Name: Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini) |
Papacy: | 21 June 1963 - 6 August 1978 (15 years, 46 days) |
Currency: | Lira (1929-2001) |
Obverse: | Coat of arms of Pope Paulus VI |
Obverse Legend: |
• PAVLVS • VI • P. M. • A. XIII • MCMLXXV •, GISMONDI G. MONASSI INC. |
Reverse: | Olive branch, value below, denomination above |
Reverse Legend: | CITTÀ DEL VATICANO. L.50 |
Edge: | Reeded |
Designer: | Tomaso Gismondi |
Orientation: | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
Composition: | Acmonital (Ac) |
Diameter: | 24.8 mm |
Thickness: | 2 mm |
Weight: | 6.20 grams |
Mintage: | 600,000 |
Catalog Number: | KM# 121 |
Paul VI reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978. Succeeding Pope John XXIII, who had convened the Second Vatican Council, he decided to continue it. He fostered improved ecumenical relations with Orthodox and Protestants, which resulted in many historic meetings and agreements. Paul VI sought dialogue with the world, with other Christians, other religions, and atheists, excluding nobody. He saw himself as a humble servant for a suffering humanity and demanded significant changes of the rich in America and Europe in favour of the poor in the Third World. His positions on birth control and other issues were controversial in Western Europe and North America, but were applauded by people in Eastern and Southern Europe and Latin America. |
ID Number: | DB03-0329 |
Description: | 100 Lire |
Country or State: | Vatican City, 100 Lire 1981 |
Year: | 1981 (Year III) |
Pope: | JOANNES PAVLVS II (born Karol Józef Wojtyła) |
Papacy: | 16 October 1978 to 2 April 2005 |
Currency: | Lira (1929-2001) |
Obverse: | Head left surrounded by denomination |
Obverse Legend: | IOANNES PAVLVS II P.M. AN.III MCMLXXXI, VEROI |
Reverse: | Angel offering food to seated figure |
Reverse Legend: | CITTÀ DEL VATICANO. L.100 |
Edge: | Reeded |
Designer: | Guido Veroi |
Orientation: | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
Mint Mark: | R (Rome) |
Composition: | Acmonital (Ac) |
Diameter: | 27.75 mm |
Thickness: | 2.09 mm |
Weight: | 8.00 grams |
Mintage: | 550,000 |
Catalog Number: | KM# 158 |
John Paul II, reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church from 1978 until his death in 2005. He was the second-longest serving Pope in history and the first non-Italian since 1523. John Paul II was acclaimed as one of the most influential leaders of the 20th century. He was instrumental in ending communism in his native Poland and eventually all of Europe. John Paul II significantly improved the Catholic Church's relations with Judaism, Islam, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Anglican Communion. Though criticised by progressives for upholding the Church's teachings against artificial contraception and the ordination of women, and by traditionalists for his support of the Church's Second Vatican Council and its reform, he was also widely praised for his firm, orthodox Catholic stances. |
ID Number: | DB03-0328 |
Description: | 100 Lire |
Country or State: | Vatican City, 100 Lire 1981 |
Year: | 1988 (Year X) |
Pope: | JOANNES PAVLVS II (born Karol Józef Wojtyła) |
Papacy: | 16 October 1978 to 2 April 2005 |
Currency: | Lira (1929-2001) |
Obverse: | Bust right surrounded by denomination |
Obverse Legend: | IOANNES PAVLVS II P.M. AN.X MCMLXXXVIII |
Reverse: | Standing figure in palm of hand to left of assorted animals |
Reverse Legend: | CITTÀ DEL VATICANO. L.100 |
Edge: | Reeded |
Designer: | Guido Veroi |
Orientation: | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
Mint Mark: | R (Rome) |
Composition: | Acmonital (Ac) |
Diameter: | 27.75 mm |
Thickness: | 2.09 mm |
Weight: | 8.00 grams |
Mintage: | 800,000 |
Catalog Number: | KM# 209 |
John Paul II, reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church from 1978 until his death in 2005. He was the second-longest serving Pope in history and the first non-Italian since 1523. John Paul II was acclaimed as one of the most influential leaders of the 20th century. He was instrumental in ending communism in his native Poland and eventually all of Europe. John Paul II significantly improved the Catholic Church's relations with Judaism, Islam, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Anglican Communion. Though criticised by progressives for upholding the Church's teachings against artificial contraception and the ordination of women, and by traditionalists for his support of the Church's Second Vatican Council and its reform, he was also widely praised for his firm, orthodox Catholic stances. |
ID Number: | DB03-0321 |
Description: | 50 Lire |
Country or State: | Vatican City (Città del Vaticano) |
Year: | 1988 (Year X) |
Pope: | JOANNES PAVLVS II (born Karol Józef Wojtyła) |
Papacy: | 16 October 1978 to 2 April 2005 |
Currency: | Lira (1929-2001) |
Obverse: | Bust right surrounded by denomination |
Obverse Legend: | IOANNES PAVLVS II P.M. AN.X MCMLXXXVIII |
Reverse: | Face profile to right of female figure rising out of male figure on ground |
Reverse Legend: | CITTÀ DEL VATICANO. L.50 |
Edge: | Reeded |
Designer: | Guido Veroi |
Orientation: | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
Composition: | Acmonital (Ac) |
Diameter: | 24.8 mm |
Thickness: | 2 mm |
Weight: | 6.20 grams |
Mintage: | 360,000 |
Catalog Number: | KM# 208 |
John Paul II, reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church from 1978 until his death in 2005. He was the second-longest serving Pope in history and the first non-Italian since 1523. John Paul II was acclaimed as one of the most influential leaders of the 20th century. He was instrumental in ending communism in his native Poland and eventually all of Europe. John Paul II significantly improved the Catholic Church's relations with Judaism, Islam, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Anglican Communion. Though criticised by progressives for upholding the Church's teachings against artificial contraception and the ordination of women, and by traditionalists for his support of the Church's Second Vatican Council and its reform, he was also widely praised for his firm, orthodox Catholic stances. |