San Marino

2016

Commemorative coin

400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare

Official Journal of the European Union

The design depicts a portrait of the poet. On the right, in a semi-circle, the dates ‘1616-2016’ and the name of the issuing country ‘San Marino’; on the bottom right, the initials of the artist ‘MB’. On the left, in a semi-circle, the inscription ‘William Shakespeare’; on the bottom left, the mintmark ‘R’. The coin’s outer ring depicts the 12 stars of the European flag.

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William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor whose comedies and tragedies are among the most important stage plays of world literature. He had an extensive vocabulary - nearly 18.000 different words are counted in his works of art. Characteristic of Shakespeare is his stylistic diversity, which covers all levels of language from the lowest gutter language to the highest court language. He is depicted after the portrait of Martin Droeshout published in 1623.

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