VATICAN CITY 500 Lire 1962 MS-65 (GEM) K#74 SILVER 2nd Vatican Council!

This VATICAN CITY 500 Lire 1962 struck in Pope John XXIII's final year is a commerative produced due to his calling of the Second Vatican Council that year which largely shaped the doctrine followed by the Roman Catholic Church to this day. On the obverse you can see that Pope John XXIII is wearing the Palatine Tiara which has been a papal possession since 1877. This is also the tiara he used at his coronation in 1958. (Stock #VATICAN CITY 500L1962A65 K74 QURD=P QYRVfKP)