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50 Lire

Features

Issuer	Italy
Period	Republic (1946-date)
Type	Standard circulation coin
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 Tracy L. Schmidt (editor); 2019. Standard Catalog of World Coins / 2001-Date (14^th edition). Krause Publications, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, United States. And 5 more volumes.

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	Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Rome, Italy (1911-date)

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Date	Mintage	G	VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC	Frequency
Undetermined
1996 R	110 000 000	$ 0.16	$ 0.16	$ 0.22	$ 0.27	$ 0.27	$ 0.33	$ 0.33	85%
1996 R	8 000								0.8%	Proof - In Proof Sets only
1997 R	10 000 000				$ 0.21	$ 0.25	$ 0.33	$ 0.54	13%
1997 R	8 440								0.3%	Proof - In Proof Sets only
1998 R	10 000 000				$ 0.43	$ 0.43	$ 0.55	$ 0.69	13%
1998 R	9 000								0.4%	Proof - In Proof Sets only
1999 R	55 000 000			$ 0.11	$ 0.32	$ 0.32	$ 0.32	$ 0.54	22%
1999 R	8 500								0.5%	Proof - In Proof Sets only
2000 R	61 400							$ 5.40	1.6%	BU - In BU Sets only
2000 R	8 960								0.2%	Proof - In Proof Sets only
2001 R	100 000							$ 4.40	3%	BU - In BU Sets only
2001 R	10 000								0.3%	Proof - In Proof Sets only

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