500 Lire Italian Traffic Police

Features

Issuer	Italy
Period	Republic (1946-date)
Type	Circulating commemorative coins
Year	1997
Value	500 Lire (500 ITL)
Currency	Lira (1861-2001)
Composition	Bimetallic: bronzital centre in acmonital ring
Weight	6.8 g
Diameter	25.75 mm
Thickness	1.9 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Coin alignment ↑↓
Demonetized	28 February 2002
Number	N# 2223
References	KM# 187 Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes). , Schön# 192 Battenberg Gietl Verlag (publisher). Weltmünzkatalog. Battenberg Gietl Verlag, Regenstauf, Bavaria, Germany (4 volumes).

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Commemorative issue

50th Anniversary of the Italian Traffic Police

Obverse

Female head facing left. The woman symbolizes the Italian Republic with feathered wings coming from temples (symbols of intelligence and freedom). Engraver's name below the neck-cut.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
REPVBBLICA ITALIANA ★
CRETARA

Translation: Italian Republic

Engraver: Laura Cretara

Reverse

In the inner disc in low position the arms of the Italian State Police divides the dates of the anniversary at sides. Above the arms inside a square a centaur archer to the left, symbol of the Traffic Police branch, with the mintmark. Name of the author at right of arms. In the outer ring above the value, and below the legend; while at sides a schematic representation of a road maps

Script: Latin

Lettering:
L. 500
POLIZIA STRADALE 50
1947-1997
POLIZIA DI STATO
R
SUB LEGE LIBERTAS

Translation:
Traffic Police
National Police
Under the Law There is Freedom

Engraver: Maria Carmela Colaneri

Edge

Alternating milled and plain sections (8 each)

Mint

R	Rome, Italy (476-date)

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Date	Mintage	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC		Frequency
Undetermined
1997 R	40 000 000	$ 1.00	$ 1.00	$ 1.20	$ 1.30	$ 1.30		98%
1997 R	8 440						Proof - In Proof Sets only	0.8%

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