| Description : Giacomo Puccini (1858‐1924) was an Italian
composer of the Verism period. The most famous of his twelve operas are Manon Lescaut, La Bohème, Tosca, Madama
Butterfly. He made a glittering debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in 1910 with the premiere of La
fanciulla del West (The Girl from the Golden West)(with Arturo Toscanini conducting and Enrico Caruso singing). His
opera Turandot remained unfinished. The coin, designed by Uliana Pernazza from a portrait photographed in
1900, shows the composer's name "G. PUCCINI" on the left, the letter "R" the mint mark of the Italian mint Istituto
Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato in Rome, the year of issue "2014" at the bottom, the country of issue "SAN MARINO" on the
right and the ligature "UP" of the designer's initials below. |
