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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collect89, post: 1457305, member: 15445&quot;]The Italy 500 Lire includes one of my favorite obverse &amp; reverse designs. The obverse depicts a young girl in medieval dress surrounded by the symbols of the Italian regions.&nbsp; The reverse depicts the three ships used in Columbus’ first voyage to the new world.&nbsp; Of course these galleons are the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.&nbsp; It makes perfect sense for Italy to use Columbus’ Caravels on their 500 Lire coin.&nbsp; Columbus may have sailed from Spain but Mr. Columbus was Italian.&nbsp; (Actually, to be more accurate, Mr. Columbus was Genoese. There was no Italy in 1492, except as the word might define a peninsula in southern Europe. The idea of an Italian nation was a product of the mid 19th century.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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