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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collect89, post: 683835, member: 15445&quot;]<font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">I grabbed this beautiful coin for $7 on Sunday.&nbsp; The Italy 500 Lire includes one of my favorite obverse &amp; reverse designs.&nbsp; The obverse depicts a young girl in medieval dress and the reverse depicts the three ships used in Columbus’ first voyage to the new world.&nbsp; (Columbus may have sailed from Spain but he was Italian).&nbsp; I heard an interesting story about this piece.&nbsp; Apparently, the artist did not originally intend the design to be used on the 500 Lire coin.&nbsp; He originally made the beautiful piece as a gift to a lady friend (maybe his wife?).&nbsp; It was sometime later that the design was adopted for use on the Italian coin.&nbsp; If anyone knows the details of this story, please post it.</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Very best regards,</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">collect89</font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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