San Marino 2 euros 2015 - 750th Anniversary of the Birth of Dante Alighieri

San Marino 2 euros 2015 - 750th Anniversary of the Birth of Dante Alighieri San Marino 2 euros 2015 - 750th Anniversary of the Birth of Dante Alighieri San Marino 2 euros 2015 - 750th Anniversary of the Birth of Dante Alighieri
Obverse of San Marino 2 euros 2015 - 750th Anniversary of the Birth of Dante Alighieri
Details Dante Alighieri was a major Italian poet of the late Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa and later called Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.

The obverse of the coin shows a portrait of Dante, taken from a fresco by Botticelli, combined with a script inspired by the initial letters of the first copyists of the Divine Comedy.
Specifications Diameter - 25.75mm Thickness - 2.2mm Weight - 8.5gr
Composition BiAlloy (Nk/Ng), ring Cupronickel (75% copper - 25% nickel clad on nickel core), center Nickel brass
Edge Combination of the number 2 and * repeated six times
Comments Designer: Annalisa Masin

Date of issue: 8 April 2015
Mintage 100,000 pieces

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