| Description : The books of the Roman historian Titus Livius
(59 BC ‐ 17 AD) are considered one of the most important sources for the early history of the Roman
Empire. In it, Livius describes Rome's rise to world power from the legendary founding of the city in 753 BC to its
present day in 9 BC, i.e. to the beginnings of the imperial era under Augustus. On the occasion of the 2000th anniversary
of his death, the coin shows his bust, created in 1867 by Lorenzo Larese Moretti (1858‐1867), in the "Panteon
Veneto" (Palazzo Loredan, Campo Santo Stefano in Venice). The edge of the pill is accompanied by dots, interrupted at the
bottom by the inscription "TITO ‐ LIVIO". On the right (from top to bottom) are his year of death "17", the year of issue
"2017" and the "R" the mint mark of the Italian mint Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato in Rome. On the left, the
ligature "RI" (Repubblica Italiana, Italian Republic) appears as the country abbreviation and below it the initials "C.M." of
the medallist Claudia Momoni. |
