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Commemorative coins

Euro coins intended for circulation have legal tender status throughout the euro area. For the purpose of informing the public and all parties who handle the coins, the Commission publishes a description of the designs of all new coins.

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The 500th anniversary of the birth of Adam Bohorič

The design has at its core a multi-lingual slogan from the cover of Bohorič’s Latin – Slovene grammar titled “Proste zimske urice”. The slogan in Slovene, written in bohoričica (the type of writing named after Adam Bohorič), which is easily recognizable due to the use of a typical letter f, is...

The 500th anniversary of the birth of Giorgio Vasari coin

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...

The 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci

The design shows a detail of the painting “Dama con l'ermellino” (Lady with an Ermine) by Leonardo da Vinci (Czartoryski Museum in Krakow). On the left, the inscription “Leonardo”, the initials of the author Maria Angela Cassol “MAC” and the logo “RI” acronym of the Italian Republic; on the...

The 500th anniversary of the death of Perugino

The design shows in the centre the Virgin Mary with the Child Jesus, detail of the painting "Madonna with Child, Saint Sebastian and Saint John the Baptist" by Perugino, preserved in the Uffizi Galleries (Florence).