UFFICIO FILATELICO E NUMISMATICO Dipartimento Finanze Press

UFFICIO FILATELICO E NUMISMATICO
Dipartimento Finanze
Press release
The Ufficio Filatelico e Numismatico informs the press about the numismatic programme 2014.
Brilliant uncirculated divisional coin set with a 5.00 Euro silver coin - uncirculated dedicated to the
“100th Anniversary of the birth of Gino Bartali”
Gino Bartali was a cycling champion and an emblem of the Italian postwar period. He won hundreds of
competitions between the 1930 and the 1950, three times the Giro d'Italia and twice the Tour de France. He
was nick-named “Ginettaccio” and he was a gruff and tenacious Tuscan athlete loved by Italian and European
sportsmen, always contending with his historic defier Fausto Coppi.
Yad Vashem, Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, established in 1953, recognized
Gino Bartali as a Righteous Among the Nations, an honor for non-Jews who risked their lives during the
Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis. Wearing the racing jersey emblazoned with his name,
he cycled with forged identity documents for Jews escaping persecution hidden in his bicycle.
For Gino Bartali sport ethics fitted with passion for life. The silver coin depicts the champion on a bicycle and
on the background a view of the characteristic Towers of the Republic of San Marino.
Issue date: 29th April 2014
Maximum mintage: 20,000 complete sets
Designs: Frantisek Chochola (obverse) and Luc Luycx (reverse)
Engravings: Ettore Lorenzo Frapiccini
Coinage: I.P.Z.S. ROME
Packaging: Lada
REPUBBLICA DI SAN MARINO
Via 28 Luglio, 212 - 47893 Borgo Maggiore
T +378 (0549) 882365 - F +378 (0549) 885179 – info.english.ufn@pa.sm
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UFFICIO FILATELICO E NUMISMATICO
Dipartimento Finanze
5.00 € silver coin: Silver coin value: € 5.00
Silver: 925/000
Legal weight: gr. 18.00
Diameter: mm. 32
Maximum mintage: 20,000 complete sets
Design: Valerio De Seta
Edge: milled
Selling price: € 41.00
REPUBBLICA DI SAN MARINO
Via 28 Luglio, 212 - 47893 Borgo Maggiore
T +378 (0549) 882365 - F +378 (0549) 885179 – info.english.ufn@pa.sm
www.aasfn.sm