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2 Euro Sanctus Petrus Roma
| Issuer | Vatican City |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The large numeral '2' occupies the left portion of the inner field, with a detailed aerial-perspective view of St. Peter's Basilica and St. Peter's Square in Rome filling the right portion, depicting the colonnade, obelisk, and radiating pathways. A dove in flight is shown above the basilica to the upper right. The outer ring bears the legend 'SANCTUS PETRUS' in the upper arc and 'ROMA' in the lower arc, flanked by small stars, all in Latin capital letters. |
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Issued as part of the Vatican's Jubilee 2000 coinage program — a year the Holy See treated as a major institutional event, attracting millions of pilgrims to Rome and prompting a broader commemorative release across multiple denominations. Pope John Paul II had been instrumental in lobbying the Catholic world to treat the millennium as a moment of debt forgiveness and reconciliation, and the coin program was explicitly tied to that initiative. Vatican euro issues of this period are not legal tender outside Vatican City, and with mintages typically under 100,000, they entered collector hands almost immediately upon release.