Details
Year of Emission 1957
Quality Proof (shiny background)
Metal Gold 18Kt Silver 925/1000
Size Diameter: mm 22
Circulation World Wide Limited to 999 copies
Twenty italian Lire
The twenty-Lira coin was produced in 1957 with 60,075,000 pieces. There exist only a few pieces of the sample twenty Lira pieces of 1956 rendering it impossible to find. The twenty Lira coin is a first class coin, easy to find, with a number of defects in coinage. For example the enlarged stem of the 7 in the date, a "p" instead of an "r", has made this money defective, not common and rare in the years 1957 and 1970. Mould and engraving by Pietro Giampaoli, in bronzital. The piece is 21.3 mm in diameter and weighs 3.6 g. The twenty-Lira coin was coined with a milled edge from 1957 to 1959 and with a smooth edge from 1969 to 2001. From 2000 to 2001 production was limited to collectors editions.