5 Euros Constitution

Features

Issuer Italy
Period Republic (1946-date)
Type Non-circulating coin
Year 2018
Value 5 Euros
5 EUR = USD 5.39
Currency Euro (2002-date)
Composition Silver (.925)
Weight 18 g
Diameter 32 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled, coloured
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
140679
References KM# 418
Tracy L. Schmidt (editor); 2019. Standard Catalog of World Coins / 2001-Date (14th edition). Krause Publications, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, United States.
And 5 more volumes.

Commemorative issue

70 Years of Italian Constitution

Obverse

Allegory of triumphant Italy holding the Italian flag with green and red enamels, from a fresco by Cesare Maccari (Maccari Hall, Palazzo Madama, Rome). Around, the inscription “REPUBBLICA ITALIANA”; lower right, the name of the designer “L. DE SIMONI”.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
REPUBBLICA ITALIANA
L. DE SIMONI

Translation: Italian Republic

Engraver: Luciana De Simoni

Reverse

Set in a frame, dominated by the inscription “SEI LIBERA SII GRANDE” (“you are free be great”) drawn from the fresco by Cesare Maccari reproducing the allegory of triumphant Italy (Maccari Hall, Palazzo Madama, Rome), an allegorical composition made of a circle and a square, symbols of Perfection and Knowledge. The composition is completed by the star of the Italian Republic and a detail from the fresco by Cesare Maccari “Humanities and the arts” (Maccari Hall, Palazzo Madama, Rome). In the middle, the value “5 EURO”, the inscription ”COSTITUZIONE ITALIANA” and, on the pages of a book, the dates “1948 2018”, i.e. the year of the entry into force of the Italian Constitution and that of the coin’s issue respectively; below, in the middle, “R”, identifying the Mint of Rome.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
SEI LIBERA
EURO 5
COSTITUZIONE ITALIANA
1948 2018
R
· SII GRANDE ·

Translation: Italian Constitution

Engraver: Luciana De Simoni

Mint

R Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Rome, Italy (1911-date)

Comments

Colored Coin with Italian Flag colors it is included in Yearly set

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Date Mintage VG F VF XF AU UNC
2018 R 5 000 $ 65 Proof

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