| Description : At the session of the United Nations General Assembly held in
the Palais de Chaillot in Paris on the 10th of December 1948, Resolution 217 was adopted with the ‐
legally non‐binding ‐ Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Its Article 1 reads: "All human beings are born
free and equal in dignity and rights". The coin pays tribute to this resolution. The coin shows a man and a woman with the
symbols of the right to peace (olive branch), to food (ears of corn), to work (cogwheel) and to freedom (a piece of barbed
wire) as well as broken chain links forming the number "60". The inscription "DIRITTI UMANI" (human rights) runs in an arc
across the lower part of the coin, above which is the ligature "RI" (Repubblica Italiana, Italian Republic) and the year
"2008". On the right are the initials "MCC" of the designer Maria Carmela Colaneri and the "R" the mint mark of the
Italian mint Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato in Rome. |
