- Description
- Specifications
| ID Number: | DB03-0202 |
| Description: | 1000 Lire European Union; Reunited Germany Map |
| Country or State: | Italy |
| Year: | 1997 |
| Currency: | Lira (1861-2001) |
| Obverse: | In the central disc female head with towered crown facing left, hair swathed in fabric. Only the crown is outside the disc. In outer ring the legend and twelve stars (dividing the legend: six above the head and six below the neck) representing the State members of the UE. Name of the author below the neck. |
| Obverse Legend: | REPVBBLICA ****** ITALIANA ******, L.CRETARA |
| Obverse Designer: | Laura Cretara |
| Reverse: | A portion of the globe centered on Europe with thick meridian and parallels outlined. In the inner disc five folded papers are above the map around the border, creating a window in shape of a five-pointed star above the Europe. In the outer ring are the value below, with name of the author right above it, but in the disc. The date is vertical on the left, while the mintmark is at right. |
| Reverse Legend: | 1997, R, PERNAZZA, L.1000 |
| Reverse Designer: | Uliana Pernazza |
| Edge: | Alternating smooth and milled sections |
| Orientation: | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
| Note: | This is the second version of the coin of 1000 lire, and have corrected political and geographical boundaries in Europe. |
| Mint Mark: | R (Rome) |
| Composition: | Bi-Metallic Copper-Nickel center in Aluminum-Bronze ring |
| Diameter: | 27.0 mm |
| Thickness: | 2.1 mm |
| Weight: | 8.8000 grams |
| Mintage: | 80,000,000 |
| Catalog Number: | KM# 194, Gigante: 3 |
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The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of 4,233,255.3 km2 (1,634,469.0 sq mi) and an estimated total population of about 447 million. An internal single market has been established through a standardised system of laws that apply in all member states in those matters, and only those matters, where the states have agreed to act as one. EU policies aim to ensure the free movement of people, goods, services and capital within the internal market; enact legislation in justice and home affairs; and maintain common policies on trade, agriculture, fisheries and regional development. Passport controls have been abolished for travel within the Schengen Area. A monetary union was established in 1999, coming into full force in 2002, and is composed of 19 member states which use the euro currency. The EU has often been described as a sui generis political entity (without precedent or comparison) with the characteristics of either a federation or confederation. The union and EU citizenship were established when the Maastricht Treaty came into force in 1993. The EU traces its origins to the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) and the European Economic Community (EEC), established, respectively, by the 1951 Treaty of Paris and 1957 Treaty of Rome. The original member states of what came to be known as the European Communities were the Inner Six: Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and West Germany. The communities and their successors have grown in size by the accession of 21 new member states and in power by the addition of policy areas to their remit. The latest major amendment to the constitutional basis of the EU, the Treaty of Lisbon, came into force in 2009. In 2020, the United Kingdom became the only member state to leave the EU. Before this, four territories of member states had left the EU or its forerunners. |