| Description : Leonardo da Vinci (1452‐1519) was an Italian painter,
sculptor, architect, anatomist, mechanic, engineer and natural philosopher. He is considered one of the most famous
polymaths of all time. He had no formal academic training, but insatiable curiosity and inventive imagination. According to
art historian Helen Gardner, the scope and depth of his interests were without precedent in recorded history. The coin
shows an angel painted by Leonardo (without the nimbus shown in the original), detail of the painting called Baptism of
Christ from the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio, created around 1475 and the first to be crucially coined by Leonardo.
The work is in the Uffizi in Florence. The circular inscription reads "SAN MARINO" "1519 Leonado 2019". On the
lower right is the letter "R" the mint mark of the Italian mint Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato in Rome and
on the left the ligature "UP" of the initials of the coin designer Uliana Pernazza. |
