50 Lire

Features

Issuer	Italy
Period	Republic (1946-date)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	1996-2001
Value	50 Lire (50 ITL)
Currency	Lira (1861-2001)
Composition	Copper-nickel
Weight	4.5 g
Diameter	19.2 mm
Thickness	1.92 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Coin alignment ↑↓
Demonetized	28 February 2002
Number	N# 2992
References	KM# 183 Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes).

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Obverse

Female head with towered crown facing left, hair swathed in fabric. One star below neck cut with name of the author on the right

Script: Latin

Lettering:
REPVBBLICA ITALIANA
L CRETARA

Translation:
Italian Republic
L. Cretara

Engraver: Laura Cretara

Reverse

Inside a large circle the value with big numbered fraction with the date above. In the outer ring a series of elements previously used in other coins of Italian Republic: from the mintmark clockwise: a bunch of grapes (5 lire km#89), a laurel branch (100 Lire km#96) an oak branch (20 Lire km#97), a cornucopia (1 Lira km#91) and a toothed wheel (200 Lire km# 105)

Script: Latin

Lettering:
1998
R
50
LIRE

Engraver: Laura Cretara

Edge

Plain

Mint

R	Rome, Italy (476-date)

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Date	Mintage	G	VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC		Frequency
Undetermined
1996 R	110 000 000	$ 0.15	$ 0.15	$ 0.23	$ 0.28	$ 0.28	$ 0.35	$ 0.35		84%
1996 R	8 000								Proof - In Proof Sets only	0.7%
1997 R	10 000 000				$ 0.22	$ 0.23	$ 0.23	$ 0.58		13%
1997 R	8 440								Proof - In Proof Sets only	0.2%
1998 R	10 000 000				$ 0.35	$ 0.41	$ 0.70	$ 1.20		14%
1998 R	9 000								Proof - In Proof Sets only	0.4%
1999 R	55 000 000			$ 0.36	$ 0.36	$ 0.36	$ 0.36	$ 0.87		23%
1999 R	8 500								Proof - In Proof Sets only	0.4%
2000 R	61 400							$ 6.00	BU - In BU Sets only	1.8%
2000 R	8 960								Proof - In Proof Sets only	0.3%
2001 R	100 000							$ 4.60	BU - In BU Sets only	3%
2001 R	10 000								Proof - In Proof Sets only	0.3%

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