2 Lire Arco della Fratta

Features

Issuer San Marino
Period Republic (301-date)
Type Circulating commemorative coin
Year 1988
Value 2 Lire (2 SML)
Currency Lira (1864-2001)
Composition Aluminium
Weight 0.8 g
Diameter 18 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Coin alignment ↑↓
Demonetized 1 March 2002
Number
N#
18285
References KM# 219
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.

Series: Fortifications

Obverse

Rectangular plaque with crowned arms of San Marino decorated with wreath around and Lion's head below.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
REPUBBLICA DI SAN MARINO
LIBERTAS

Engravers: Sergio Giandomenico, Eugenio Driutti

Reverse

Fortified arch (Arc of Fratta) with roadway beneath.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
1988
R
L.2

Engravers: Sergio Giandomenico, Eugenio Driutti

Edge

Reeded

Mint

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

Comments

The symbol that summarizes the characteristics of sovereignty of San Marino is constituted by a lionhead from whose mouth leave the branches which join the top. At the are three towers topped with feathers, covered by a roof, but no blackbirds as they were represented in earlier symbols. The set was borrowed from an old coat of arms, perhaps contemporary with the time in which they were approved and built defensive walls, and this emblem is still on the facade of an old building that was common in the era of the Magna Domus.

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