| Description : Dante Alighieri (1265‐1321) was an Italian poet and
philosopher. With the Divine Comedy, written in Old Italian (or Tuscan) around 1307 to 1320, he overcame the Latin
that had dominated until then and made Italian a literary language. He is considered one of the most famous authors of
Italian literature as well as of the European Middle Ages. For the 750th anniversary of his birth, Annalisa Masini
created the coin design after a painting by Sandro Botticelli from 1495. It shows the poet in profile, a laurel wreath on
his head. A stylised spine with superimposed majuscules forming the name "DANTE", borrowed from one of the first editions
of the Divina Commedia. The country of issue "SAN MARINO" can be seen in a semicircle on the right side, within the
semicircle there is the letter "R" the mint mark of the Italian mint Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato in
Rome, the dates "1265" and "2015" as well as the designer's signet "AM". |
