| Description : The coin motif shows the Italian historian and numismatist
Bartolomeo Borghesi (1781‐1860) according to his monument in San Marino created by Giuseppe Romagnoli in 1904. In 1821
Borghesi moved his residence there and began publishing the Osservazioni numismatiche (numismatic observations) on
coinage in the Roman Republic. In 1838 he was sent to Milan to represent the Republic of San Marino at the coronation of
the Austrian Emperor Ferdinand I as King of Lombardo‐Venetia. On the right is the name of the issuing state "SAN
MARINO", on the left "BARTOLOMEO BORGHESI", the letter "R" the mint mark of the Italian mint Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca
dello Stato in Rome and the initials "E.L.F." of the designer Ettore Lorenzo Frapiccini. The ring shows the
twelve stars of Europe and the year of issue "2004" at the bottom. |
