by InTrieste
Italy’s finance ministry issued a special coin to mark the centenary of the birth of Italo Calvino, one of the most important figures in 20th-century Italian literature.
The limited-edition silver coin, with a nominal value of €5, pays tribute to the writer, journalist and novelist whose stories inspired theatre, cinema and the arts.
The state mint has issued 9,000 of the collectors’ coins which feature a portrait of Calvino on one side and a depiction of a scene from his 1957 novel The Baron in the Trees set against the coast of Liguria on the other side.
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