San Marino

2021

Commemorative coin

The 550th anniversary of the birth of Albrecht Dürer

Official Journal of the European Union

The design depicts the Virgin Mary with Baby Jesus, detail of the painting ‘Madonna with Child’ by Albrecht Dürer, kept in the Uffizi Galleries (Florence). At the left is the inscription ‘SAN MARINO’ and the mintmark ‘R’. At the top right is the monogram ‘AD’ with the initials of Albrecht Dürer and at the right is the inscription ‘DÜRER’. At the bottom are the initials of the author Valerio De Seta, ‘VdS’, and the dates ‘1471-2021’. The coin’s outer ring depicts the 12 stars of the European flag.

Additional information

Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was a German painter, graphic artist, mathematician and art theorist. With his paintings, drawings, copperplate engravings and woodcuts, he is one of the outstanding representatives of the Renaissance. The coin shows Dürer's 1526 painting Mary with Child, now in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. The pear held in Mary's left hand can be interpreted as a symbol of love because of its sweetness.

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