Details
Year of Emission 1954
Quality Proof (shiny background)
Metal Gold 18Kt
Size Diameter: mm 25
Circulation World Wide Limited to 999 copies
Fifty italian Lire
17,600,000 pieces of the Fifty-Lira coin were produced from 1954 to 1989, and has seen successive modifications in form and design. The fifty Lira is a common coin, if not in particular cases due to errors in coinage and insertion of the shiny background. A first class coin due to the absence of defects in coinage. It has an allegoric scene on one side and Vulcan (Efesto in Greek) the god of fire and of metallurgy on the other. Son of Zeus and Era, he came to be considered the farrier of the gods.
Moulds of the fifty Lira are by Giuseppe Romagnoli and engravings by Pietro Giampaoli in acmonital. The piece is 23.3 mm in diameter and weighs 6.25 g with scored edge. From 1990 the fifty Lira was coined in a smaller size, diameter of 16.55 and weighed 2.7 g. From 1996 to 2001 the face of the coin was changed, designed by Laura Cretara, it now has the "L'Italia Turrita" the symbol of Italy and on the back a bunch of grapes, acorn tree branch, cornucopia and a small gear. The dimensions changed again to a diameter of 19.2 mm with a weight of 4.5 g and a smooth edge.
