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DB03-0404
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ID Number: DB03-0404 Description: 50 Lire Country or State: Italy Year: 1990 Currency: Lira Obverse: Woman head with oak wreath in hair facing right. Designer and engraver signatures below Obverse Legend: REPVBBLICA ITALIANA, ROMAGNOLI, GIAMPAOLI INC. ...Read more



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ID Number: DB03-0404
Description: 50 Lire
Country or State: Italy
Year: 1990
Currency: Lira
Obverse: Woman head with oak wreath in hair facing right. Designer and engraver signatures below
Obverse Legend: REPVBBLICA ITALIANA, ROMAGNOLI, GIAMPAOLI INC.
Reverse: Representation of the god Vulcan beating iron on an anvil. On the right the value with the mint sign underneath, on the left the date
Reverse Legend: 1990, L.50, R
Designer: Giuseppe Romagnoli
Engraver: Pietro Giampaoli
Edge: Smooth
Orientation: Coin alignment ↑↓
Note: Small Type
Mint Mark: R (Rome)
Composition: Acmonital (Ac)
Diameter: 16.55 mm
Thickness: 2.00 mm
Weight: 2.730 grams
Mintage: 45,500,000
Catalog Number: KM# 95.2; Gigante: 421

Vulcan (Latin: Volcānus or Vulcānus) is the god of fire including the fire of volcanoes, deserts, metalworking and the forge in ancient Roman religion and myth. He is often depicted with a blacksmith's hammer. The Vulcanalia was the annual festival held August 23 in his honor. His Greek counterpart is Hephaestus, the god of fire and smithery. In Etruscan religion, he is identified with Sethlans.

Vulcan belongs to the most ancient stage of Roman religion: Varro, the ancient Roman scholar and writer, citing the Annales Maximi, records that king Titus Tatius dedicated altars to a series of deities including Vulcan.