| Description : Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807‐1882) was a fighter for the
pre‐1870 Italian unification movement, the Risorgimento, and is today considered a national symbol of Italy. He took
part in the Italian revolutions of 1848/49 and was leader of the revolutionary army in the short‐lived Roman Republic
proclaimed on the 9th of February 1849. His campaigns made him a national hero. With his troops, he was initially
able to hold off the French army intervening in favour of the fugitive Pope Pius IX, but was forced to flee after the
capitulation of the Roman Republic on the 3rd of July 1849 and found temporary refuge in San Marino. His
depiction follows a photo from 1866. On the left is the name "SAN MARINO" and the letter "R" the mint mark of the Italian
mint Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato in Rome, on the right the year of issue "2007". The signet "E.L.F." of
the designer Ettore Lorenzo Frapiccini can be seen on the left under the name of the issuing state. |
