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The edge embossing on the Italian 2‐Euro‐commemorative coins is :	Italian mint mark :

Image	Country		Feature	Ref.
		Italy	2200th anniversary of the death of Titus Maccius Plautus	20001 20002
	Description : Plautus (∼254‐184 BC) was one of the first and most prolific comedy poets in ancient Rome. The motif shows theatre masks from a mosaic created around 100 BC, today in the Capitoline Museums. They depict two characters from the New Comedy, the young woman and the slave ‐ with a corona of vines ‐ whose bacchanalian features evoke associations with Dionysus, the god of ecstasy, intoxication, transformation and wine. Above this is a semi‐circular stylised representation of a theatre of Roman antiquity and the ligature "RI" (Repubblica Italiana, Italian Republic) as the country's abbreviation. Below are the name "PLAUTO" and above it the year of his death "184 A.C." (184 BC) and the year of issue "2016". On the left is the "R" the mint mark of the Italian mint Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato in Rome and on the right the signet "LDS" of the medallist Luciana De Simoni.

References :
20001	Images taken with authorisation by the ECB ‐ Mail dated 20.Feb.2020 © "European Central Bank"	20002	Text taken from German Wikipedia and translated by DeepL
20003	Images taken temporally from the Internet	20004	Not Applicable