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 Posted 04/25/2012  2:17 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add svslav to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
A couple from the times when fractions of a lira mattered:





I'm not sure what's going on chemically with the second one, it doesn't look unattractive (to me) though.

And another more recent coin, a cute one,

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 Posted 04/25/2012  5:10 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add chrisild to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The cat-and-dog coin is very nice indeed. :)

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 Posted 04/25/2012  5:19 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add andyg to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
the 1983 are some of oddest designs - I think the idea (Nuclear Holocaust) was somehow lost, the 500 Lire seems to be commemorating some sort of cow scaring competition to me.
















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 Posted 04/26/2012  2:45 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add svslav to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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the 500 Lire seems to be commemorating some sort of cow scaring competition to me.



Yeah, this series is somewhat scary but that was the artist's intention.

A couple more from my collection, the Millennium issue:



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Got another set, 1980 XXII Summer Olympics in Moscow, the ones that US boycotted.











The case of 50 lire I would call a design error. Signore Crocetti seems to go overboard trying to cover a broad spectrum of sports. Yes, at that time both Summer and Winter Olympics were held the same year, but the obverse explicitly states "XXII Olympics" which were Summer Olympics in Moscow. Since the Winter Olympics started later their numbering is lagging behind. In 1980 it was XIII WO in Lake Placid, USA. Interestingly, XXII WO are coming up in 2014, and they will be held in Russia as well, city of Sochi.
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