Italy

2020

Commemorative coin

The 80th Anniversary of Foundation of ‘Corpo Nazionale dei Vigili del Fuoco’ (National Fire Department)

Official Journal of the European Union

The design shows, in the center, the logo of the National Fire Department. On the left, ‘RI’, acronym of the Italian Republic; on the right, the year of the coin’s issue ‘2020’; ‘R’, identifying the Mint of Rome; below, ‘LDS’, initials of the designer Luciana De Simoni; above, arch-shaped inscription ‘CORPO NAZIONALE DEI VIGILI DEL FUOCO’. The coin’s outer ring depicts the 12 stars of the European flag.

Additional information

Immediately after the unification of Italy, there were fire brigade organisations (pompieri) of varying quality at the local level. As a rule, these were volunteer fire brigades, some of which were set up at the municipal level according to the medieval model. In 1939, the national fire brigade corps was founded, in which military service could be performed from 1950 to 2005. However, the fire brigade in South Tyrol - like those in Trentino and Valle d'Aosta - is an independent organisation and, unlike in the rest of Italy, relies almost exclusively on volunteers. On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the national fire brigade in Italy, its logo is shown.

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