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10 years of the Euro
| 2012 |
The Euro-sign in the centre of the coin shows that the Euro has become an element of particular importance in Europe as well as all over the world as the Euro evolved to a global player in the international monetary system in the last 10 years. The design elements around the Euro-symbol on the coin express the importance of the Euro to the people, to the financial world (ECB tower), to trading (ships), to industry (factories), to the energy sector and research and development (wind power stations). It was created by Helmut Andexlinger who is a professional designer at the Austrian Mint. The artist's initials, AH, appear below the image of the ECB tower.
Issuing volume: 130 000 coins
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Announced issue: the 500th anniversary of the birth of Giorgio Vasari
| 2011 |
Vasari (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an painter, writer, and architect, famous for his biographies of Italian artists, and he is now considered the ideological founder of art-historical writing. The central part of the coin shows a detail of the painting by Giorgio Vasari "Giuditta decapita Oloferne" (Giuditta decapitates Oloferne). On the bottom, the dates "1511-2011", on the left "G. Vasari" and the mintmark "R", on the right the name of the issuing country "San Marino" and the initials of the author Claudia Momoni "CM ". The coin’s outer ring depicts the 12 stars of the European Union flag.
Issuing volume: 130 000 coins
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500th anniversary of the death of Sandro Botticelli
| 2010 |
The coin commemorates the 500th anniversary of the death of the Italian painter of the Florentine school Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (1445 – 1510), better known as Sandro Botticelli or Il Botticello "The Little Barrel". |
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European Year of Creativity and Innovation
| 2009 |
The coin was issued on the occasion of the European Year of Creativity and Innovation, launched by the European Commission. The inner part of the coin depicts objects representing scientific research: a book, a compass, a test tube and a flask. On the left are the three emblematic feathers of the Republic of San Marino.
Issuing volume: 130 000 coins |
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European Year of Intercultural Dialogue
| 2008 |
The coin features five human silhouettes symbolising the different cultures of the five regions of the European continent, together with the sacred texts of their different religious communities. The European Year of Intercultural Dialogue celebrates Europe's great cultural diversity and aims to encourage mutual learning among different cultural traditions and heritages. |
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Bicentenary of Giuseppe Garibaldi’s birth
| 2007 |
The coin features a portrait of Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882), the Italian revolutionary who played a crucial role in the formation of a unified Italy. The portrait is based on a photograph of Garibaldi taken in 1866. |
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5th centenary of Christopher Columbus’s death
| 2006 |
This coin features a portrait of Christopher Columbus against a backdrop showing his three caravels – the Niña, Pinta and Santa María – and a wind rose. It commemorates the 500-year anniversary of his death. |
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World Year of Physics 2005
| 2005 |
This coin features a representation of Galileo Galilei used as an allegory of ‘Old Physics’ (Fisica antica). 2005 was chosen as the World Year of Physics because it marked the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein's ‘miraculous year’ in which he published three important papers describing ideas that have since influenced all of modern physics |
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Bartolomeo Borghesi
| 2004 |
This coin features a bust of historian Bartolomeo Borghesi, one of the founding fathers of the modern science of numismatics. Borghesi spent a considerable part of his life in San Marino, where he died in 1860. |
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