Subject of the commemorative coin:
2200th anniversary of Titus Maccius Plautus' death
Description of the design:
Stage masks representing two characters from the New Comedy: the young woman and the slave, after a mosaic from the 2nd century AD (Rome, Capitoline Museums), surrounded by the plan of a Roman theatre and the logo of the Italian Republic “RI”, with “R” on the left and “LDS” on the right, the initials of the designer Luciana De Simoni; at the bottom “184 a. C.” (184 BC), “2016” and “PLAUTO” (Plautus). The coin’s outer ring depicts the 12 stars of the European flag.
Italy 2016: 2200th anniversary of the death of Plautus
€3.95Price
Circulation:
1,500,000 coins
Date of issue:
May 16, 2016