| Description : Filippo Lippi (∼1406‐1469) was an Italian painter of
the early Renaissance. The coin shows a detail of his painting Madonna and Child with Two Angels, painted in 1465
and now in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Lippi was a monk for many years and met the Dominican novice Lucrezia Buti
(*1435) when she posed for him for a painting of the Virgin Mary. During a procession in honour of the Holy Belt in Prato,
he kidnapped her and she bore him a son in 1457 and a daughter in 1465. She is also said to be depicted in the above
painting. At the top is "SAN MARINO", below it "FILIPPO LIPPI", on the left his year of death "1469" and the letter "R" the
mint mark of the Italian mint Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato in Rome, at the bottom are the initials
"M.A.C." of the mint designer Maria Angela Cassol and the year of issue "2019". |
