Italian Commemorative coins

2 euros - St Mark's Basilica in Venice

The coin marks the 400th Anniversary of the Completion of the Basilica of San Marco in Venice. The motive was announced on 22 December 2016 by the director of the Italian mint, Adriano Balma. The motif is composed of an image showing the facade of the ... [ More ]

Krause - Mishler	N/A
Other information	Designer: Luciana De Simon - Legend: VENEZIA

Year	Mintage	Price	Shop
2017	1,500,000 pieces	€ 2.95	Buy

2 euros - 2000 years since the death of Titus Livius

The coin is dedicated to the Bimilenary of the Death of Tito Livio, a Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people – Ab Urbe Condita Libri (Books from the Foundation of the City). Tito Livio was born and died in what is ... [ More ]

Krause - Mishler	N/A
Other information	Designer: Claudia Momoni - Legend: Tito Livio

Year	Mintage	Price	Shop
2017	1,500,000 pieces	-	View

2 euros - 550th anniversary of the death of Donatello

Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi, better known as Donatello, was an early Renaissance sculptor from Florence. He studied classical sculpture worked in stone, bronze, wood, clay, stucco and wax. He had several assistants, with four perhaps being a typical ... [ More ]

Krause - Mishler	N/A
Other information	Designer: Claudia Momoni - Legend: DONATELLO

Year	Mintage	Price	Shop
2016	1,500,000 pieces	€ 3.05	Buy

2 euros - Titus Maccius Plautus

The coin is dedicated to the 2200th anniversary of the death of Titus Maccius Plautus. Titus Maccius Plautus, commonly known as Plautus, was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived ... [ More ]

Krause - Mishler	N/A
Other information	Designer: Luciana De Simoni

Year	Mintage	Price	Shop
2016	1,000,000 pieces	€ 3.05	Buy

2 euros - 30th anniversary of the EU flag

In July 2015, the 19 euro-area countries jointly issued a commemorative euro coin celebrating 30 years of the EU flag. Regardless of the country, it bears the same design on the national side, normally reserved for a motif specific to that country. This ... [ More ]

Krause - Mishler	N/A
Other information	Designer: Georgios Stamatopoulos

Year	Mintage	Price	Shop
2015	1,000,000 pieces	€ 3.35	Buy

2 euros - 750th Anniversary of Dante Alighieri

The second Italian commemorative coin for 2015 marks the 750th anniversary of the birth of Dante Alighieri. Durante degli Alighieri, simply called Dante, was a major Italian poet of the late Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern ... [ More ]

Krause - Mishler	N/A
Other information	Designer: Silvia Petrassi

Year	Mintage	Price	Shop
2015	3,500,000 pieces	€ 3.40	Buy

2 euros - Expo 2015 World Exhibition

Expo 2015 is the next scheduled Universal Exposition after Expo 2012, hosted by Milan, Italy, between 1 May and 31 October 2015. It is the second time Milan hosts the exposition, the first being the Milan International of 1906. Expo 2015 is held under ... [ More ]

Krause - Mishler	N/A
Other information	Legend: "Nutrire IL PIANETA" (Feeding the Planet) - Engraver: Maria Grazia Urbani

Year	Mintage	Price	Shop
2015	3,500,000 pieces	€ 3.40	Buy

2 euros - 200° Anniversary of the Carabinieri

The Carabinieri is the national military police of Italy, policing both military and civilian populations (1814 - 2014). It was originally founded as the police force of the Kingdom of Sardinia. During the process of Italian unification, it was appointed ... [ More ]

Krause - Mishler	#367
Other information	Date of issue: 25 March 2014.

Year	Mintage	Price	Shop
2014	6,500,000 pieces	€ 3.35	Buy

2 euros - 450th Years since the Birth of Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Italy on February 15, 1564. He was the oldest of seven children. His father was a musician and wool trader, who wanted his son to study medicine as there was more money in medicine. His achievements include improvements ... [ More ]

Krause - Mishler	N/A
Other information	Legend: GALILEO GALILEI - Designer: Claudia Momoni

Year	Mintage	Price	Shop
2014	6,500,000 pieces	€ 3.30	Buy

2 euros - 700th Anniversary of the Birth of Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend, student, and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist and the author of a number of notable works including the Decameron, On Famous Women, and ... [ More ]

Krause - Mishler	#358
Other information	Designer: Roberto Mauri (letter «m») - Legend: "BOCCACCIO"

Year	Mintage	Price	Shop
2013	10,000,000 pieces	€ 3.30	Buy

2 euros - 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. Some of his themes have long since taken root in popular culture – such as "La donna e mobile" from Rigoletto, "Va, pensiero" (The ... [ More ]

Krause - Mishler	#357
Other information	Designer: Maria Carmela Colaneri (MCC) - Legend: G.VERDI

Year	Mintage	Price	Shop
2013	10,000,000 pieces	€ 3.65	Buy

2 euros - 100 Years since the Death of Giovanni Pascoli

Giovanni Placido Agostino Pascoli was an Italian poet and classical scholar. He was born at San Mauro di Romagna (in his honor renamed "San Mauro Pascoli" in 1932), into a well-to-do family. He was the fourth of ten children of Ruggero Pascoli and Caterina ... [ More ]

Krause - Mishler	#355
Other information	N/A

Year	Mintage	Price	Shop
2012	15,000,000 pieces	€ 3.20	Buy

2 euros - 10 years of euro banknotes and coins

On 1 January 2002, euro banknotes and coins were introduced in 12 Member States of the European Union. The introduction of the euro cash was an unprecedented challenge, but it went smoothly, and billions of banknotes and coins started to circulate in ... [ More ]

Krause - Mishler	#350
Other information	Designer: Helmut Andexlinger

Year	Mintage	Price	Shop
2012	15,000,000 pieces	€ 3.40	Buy

2 euros - 150th Anniversary of Italian unification

Italian unification was the political and social movement that agglomerated different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of Italy in the 19th century. Despite a lack of consensus on the exact dates for the beginning and end of this ... [ More ]

Krause - Mishler	#338
Other information	Designer: Ettore Lorenzo Frapiccini

Year	Mintage	Price	Shop
2011	10,000,000 pieces	€ 3.15	Buy

2 euros - 200th Birthday of Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour

Camillo Paolo Filippo Giulio Benso, Count of Cavour, of Isolabella and of Leri was a leading figure in the movement toward Italian unification. He was the founder of the original Italian Liberal Party and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia. ... [ More ]

Krause - Mishler	#328
Other information	Engraver: Claudia Momon

Year	Mintage	Price	Shop
2010	3,941,000 pieces	€ 3.60	Buy

2 euros - 10th anniversary of the EMU and the birth of the euro

A first attempt to create an economic and monetary union between the members of the European Communities goes back to an initiative by the European Commission in 1969. However, the introduction of the euro started principally on 31 December 1998, when ... [ More ]

Krause - Mishler	#312
Other information	Designer: Georgios Stamatopoulos Legend: REPUBBLICA ITALIANA UEM (l' unione economica e monetaria)

Year	Mintage	Price	Shop
2009	1,985,000 pieces	€ 4.15	Buy

2 euros - 200th Birthday of Louis Braille

The Braille system is a method that is widely used by blind people to read and write. Braille was devised in 1821 by Louis Braille, a blind Frenchman. Each Braille character or cell is made up of six dot positions, arranged in a rectangle containing two ... [ More ]

Krause - Mishler	#310
Other information	Legend: LOUIS BRAILLE 1809-2009 Engraver: Maria Carmela Colaneri

Year	Mintage	Price	Shop
2009	1,953,900 pieces	€ 3.65	Buy

2 euros - 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

On 10 December 2007, Human Rights Day, the Secretary-General and High Commissioner for Human Rights launched a year-long celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A man and a woman with an olive branch, an ear ... [ More ]

Krause - Mishler	#301
Other information	Legend: DIRITTI UMANI Designer: Maria Carmela Colaneri Mintmark: Initials of the engraver (MCC)

Year	Mintage	Price	Shop
2008	5,000,000 pieces	€ 4.95	Buy

2 euros - 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome

The Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community and ultimately led to the introduction of the euro in 1999 and the euro banknotes and coins in 2002. The anniversary was celebrated on 25 March 2007 and the euro area countries have marked ... [ More ]

Krause - Mishler	#311
Other information	Legend: TRATTATI DI ROMA/50o ANNIVERSARIO/EUROPA/REPUBBLICA ITALIANA

Year	Mintage	Price	Shop
2007	5,000,000 pieces	€ 4.45	Buy

2 euros - XX Olympic Winter Games - Turin 2006

An image of a skier, a dynamic, curvilinear figure, is in the centre of the coin. Above him are the words ‘GIOCHI INVERNALI’ and to his left the location of the Winter Games is marked by the word ‘TORINO’ and an image of Turin’s landmark Mole Antonelliana ... [ More ]

Krause - Mishler	#246
Other information	Designer: Maria Carmela Colaneri

Year	Mintage	Price	Shop
2006	40,000,000 pieces	€ 5.55	Buy

2 euros - 1st anniversary of the European Constitution

The centre of the coin features Europa and the bull, with Europa holding a pen and the text of the European Constitution. To the upper left of the image is the mintmark ‘R’. The initials of engraver Maria Carmela Colaneri, ‘MCC’, appear on the lower left ... [ More ]

Krause - Mishler	#245
Other information	Designer: Maria Carmela Colaneri

Year	Mintage	Price	Shop
2005	18,000,000 pieces	€ 4.65	Buy

2 euros - 5th decade of the World Food Programme

The foreground shows the globe, tilted to the right and bearing the inscription WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME, from which emerges an ear of wheat, an ear of maize and an ear of rice, the three grains representing the world's basic sources of nourishment. To the ... [ More ]

Krause - Mishler	#237
Other information	Engraver: Uliana Pernazza

Year	Mintage	Price	Shop
2004	16,000,000 pieces	€ 4.90	Buy