Italy

2017

Commemorative coin

Bimillenary of the death of Titus Livius

Official Journal of the European Union

Bust of the Roman historian Titus Livius, taken from a work by Lorenzo Larese Moretti; on the left the logo of the Italian Republic ‘RI’, and ‘C.M.’ initials of the author Claudia Momoni; on the right ‘17’ and ‘2017’, respectively year of the death of Livius and year of the issue of the coin, and the mintmark of the Mint of Rome ‘R’; around circle of dots and the inscription ‘TITO • LIVIO’. The coin’s outer ring depicts the 12 stars of the European flag.

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The books of the Roman historian Titus Livius (59 BC - 17 AD) are considered one of the most important sources for the early history of the Roman Empire. In it, Livius describes Rome's rise to world power from the legendary founding of the city in 753 BC to its present day in 9 BC, i.e. to the beginnings of the imperial era under Augustus. On the occasion of the 2000th anniversary of his death, the coin shows his bust, sculpted in 1867 by Lorenzo Larese Moretti (1858-1867), in the "Panteon Veneto"[873] (Palazzo Loredan, Campo Santo Stefano in Venice).

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