| Description : Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483‐1520) was a painter of
the Italian High Renaissance, active in Florence and at the papal court in Rome and ‐ after the death of Donato
Bramante ‐ architect in charge of the construction of St Peter's Basilica in 1514. Raphael achieved fame above
all as a painter for his harmonious and balanced compositions and lovely pictures of the Madonna. The motif of the coin is
a detail of the fresco of the Madonna di Casa Santi created in Urbino in 1498, one of the very first works by the
then fifteen‐year‐old Raphael. At the top right are the dates "1520" and "2020" as well as "SAN MARINO", at the
bottom "RAFFAELLO", next to it the initials "A.M." of the coin designer Annalisa Masini and on the left the letter
"R" the mint mark of the Italian mint Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato in Rome. |
