Subject of the commemorative coin:
 500th Birthday of Giorgio Vasari

 Description of the design:
 The coin commemorates the 500th anniversary of the birth of Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574). Vasari was a painter, writer and architect, and is best known for his biographies of Italian artists. He is now considered the spiritual father of art historiography. The inner part of the coin shows a detail of his painting "Judith Beheading Holofernes". At the bottom along the inner rim are the dates "1511-2011" with the name "G. Vasari" on the left and the issuing country "SAN MARINO" on the right. The mint mark "R" is to the left of the central image and the letters "CM", the initials of the designer Claudia Momoni, are to the immediate right. The coin's outer ring features the twelve stars of the European Union.