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RSS![The 500th anniversary of the appearance of the ordinance of the second period of coin issuance during the reign of Charles V](https://economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2022-04/2_euro_comm_belgium_2021_carolus_v.jpg?itok=4CrXm3hh)
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 500th anniversary of the birth of Adam Bohorič](https://economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2024-02/SI_Commemorative%20coin%202020.jpg?h=aede2589&itok=wX00xRu_)
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](https://economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2017-01/sm_2011.jpg?itok=r4EMMly4)
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 Bramante Lazzari delle Penne di San Marino coin](https://economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2017-01/bramante_400.jpg?itok=JMIwXeP7)
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 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci](https://economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2019-05/the_500th_anniversary_of_the_death_of_leonardo_da_vinci.jpg?itok=DjQQBx2e)
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 Luca Signorelli](https://economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2023-06/Signorelli.jpg?itok=k8LEzg-y)
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 500th anniversary of the death of Perugino](https://economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2023-06/2023-04-12%20C%202%E2%82%AC%20Perugino_0.jpg?itok=gO_po9UD)
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 500th anniversary of the foundation of Monaco's Sovereignty, by founder Lucien 1er Grimaldi coin](https://economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2017-01/mc_2012_400.jpg?itok=CLdf5wep)
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 500th anniversary of the issue of the world famous book ‘Laus Stultitiae’ by the Dutch philosopher, humanist and theologian Desiderus Erasmus coin](https://economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2017-01/nl_2011.jpg?itok=S_Q4BSmb)
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.
![the 50th anniversary of Ireland’s membership of the European Union](https://economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2023-10/the%2050th%20anniversary%20of%20Ireland%E2%80%99s%20membership%20of%20the%20European%20Union.png?itok=ylFd0wZs)
The design depicts a modification to the “EU50” programme logo used by Government Departments to promote events marking the 50th anniversary of Ireland’s EU membership. The name of the issuing country "ÉIRE" is inserted above the logo.