Commemorative coins

The most famous coin is the Golden Carolus Guilder. Charles V's pursuit of uniformity and centralization was also expressed in this series of coins. Almost 500 years after Charles V introduced his silver Carolus guilder, he was depicted on some ECU coins. The ECU, standing for European Currency...

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...

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 coin depicts Bramante's portrait, and part of Tempietto (Italian: "small temple"), which is a small commemorative tomb built by Donato Bramante, possibly as early as 1502, in the courtyard of San Pietro in Montorio and considered a masterpiece of the High Renaissance Italian architecture. The...

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 design shows an angel in the centre, a detail from the painting "Il Paradiso" by Luca Signorelli, preserved in the Chapel of San Brizio in the Cathedral of Orvieto.

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).

The The inner part of the coin shows a portrait of LUCIEN 1er Grimaldi in profile facing to the left. The words “SOUVERAINETE DE MONACO” appear above the portrait in an arc along the upper edge of the inner part of the coin, flanked by the years "1512" and "2012". Two ornamental details are...

The inner part of the coin depicts Erasmus writing his book and the effigy of Queen Beatrix. Between these two images, the inscription ‘Beatrix Koningin der Nederlanden’ vertically positioned, the year ‘2011’, the Mint master mark and the mintmark.