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  2. Coins of the Italian lira - Wikipedia

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    Lire 10 and Lire 20 coins dated 2000 or 2001 were struck in sets only. The Lire 500 coin was the first bimetallic circulating coin, and was also the first circulating coin to feature Braille numerals (a Braille "L. 500" is on the upper rim of the coin's reverse, above the building).

  3. Italian lira - Wikipedia

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    Increases in the silver bullion price led to the 500 lire coins being produced only in small numbers for collectors after 1967. The 500 lire (and later the 1,000 lire) also appeared in a number of commemorative coin issues, such as the centennial of Italian unification in 1961. Between 1967 and 1982, two types of "paper money" were issued with ...

  4. History of coins in Italy - Wikipedia

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    Italy has a long history of different coinage types, which spans thousands of years. Italy has been influential at a coinage point of view: the medieval Florentine florin, one of the most used coinage types in European history and one of the most important coins in Western history, [1] was struck in Florence in the 13th century, while the Venetian sequin, minted from 1284 to 1797, was the most ...

  5. File:500 lire, 1960, Italy.jpg - Wikipedia

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    English: 500 lira coin, 1960, Italy. Silver assay value 835, diameter 29.4 mm, weight 11.04 g. Three caravels of Columbus are depicted on the obverse. Edge with an inscription in raised letters "(REPVBBLICA ITALIANA * * * 1960 * * *)".

  6. Bi-metallic coin - Wikipedia

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    The first modern circulating bi-metallic coin was the Italian 500 lire, first issued in 1982. [7] Based on the minting process of the lire coin, A list of All bi-metallic coins can be found here. The first ever tri-metallic circulating coins were 20-francs coins introduced in France and Monaco in 1992.

  7. Laura Cretara - Wikipedia

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    She's been the first woman in Italy to sign a coin. She designed the 100 lire coined since 1993, as well as the national face of the one euro coin with the Vitruvian man by Leonardo. She also designed great part of the Italian bimetallic coins of 500 lire.

  8. Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato - Wikipedia

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    Bi-metallic 500 lire coin minted in 1982. On 27 December 1911, the Italian mint was officially inaugurated by king Victor Emmanuel III in the seat located in via Principe Umberto, on the Esquiline. But in 1907, Victor Emmanuel founded the Scuola dell'Arte della Medaglia (SAM) ('School of the Art of Medalmaking') in the old location of the mint ...

  9. Lira - Wikipedia

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    Italian lira 1861–2002; merged into the euro, 1999 (notes and coins from 2002) Italian East African lira 1938–1941; supplanted by the East African shilling; Italian Somaliland lira 1925–1926; replaced by the Italian East African lira; Luccan lira until 1800 and 1826–1847; merged into the Italian lira

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