View source for Italian euro coins

{{Short description|Euro coins issued by Italy}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}}
'''Italian euro coins''' have a design unique to each denomination, though there is a common theme of famous Italian works of art throughout history. Each coin is designed by a different designer, from the 1 cent to the 2 euro coin they are: Eugenio Driutti, Luciana De Simoni, Ettore Lorenzo Frapiccini, Claudia Momoni, Maria Angela Cassol, Roberto Mauri, Laura Cretara and Maria Carmela Colaneri. All designs feature the [[European symbols|12 stars of the EU]], the year of imprint, the overlapping letters "RI" for ''Repubblica Italiana'' (Italian Republic) and the letter R for Rome.<ref>[http://www.fleur-de-coin.com/eurocoins/italy-euro-coins Eurocoins in Italy]</ref> There are no Italian euro coins dated earlier than ''2002'', even though they were certainly minted earlier, as they were first distributed to the public in December 2001.

==History==
{{see also|History of coins in Italy}}
The choice of the design of the coins was left to the Italian public by means of a television broadcast where alternative designs were presented, letting the people vote by calling a certain telephone number. However, the 1 euro coin was missing in this election, because [[Carlo Azeglio Ciampi]], the then economy minister, had already decided it would feature the ''[[Vitruvian Man]]'' of [[Leonardo da Vinci]]. Leonardo's work is highly symbolic as it represents the [[Renaissance]] focus on man as the measure of all things, and has simultaneously a round shape that fits the coin perfectly. As Ciampi observed, this represents the "coin to the service of Man", instead of Man to the service of money.

==Italian euro design==
For [[Euro coins#Depiction of euro coinage – Reverse side|images of the common side]] and a detailed description of the coins, see [[euro coins]].

{{Coin image box 8 singles
| header = Depiction of Italian euro coinage <nowiki>|</nowiki> Obverse side
| column_1_width = 150
| column_2_width = 167
| column_3_width = 156
| denom_1 = €0.01
| denom_2 = €0.02
| denom_3 = €0.05
| image_1 = [[File:1 Cent, Italy.jpg|100px|The Castel del Monte, a 13th-century castle in Apulia]]
| image_2 = [[File:2 Cents, Italy.jpg|120px|Mole Antonelliana, a tower symbolising the city of Turin]]
| image_3 = [[File:5 Cents, Italy.jpg|150px|Colosseum, amphitheatre in Rome]]
| caption_1 = [[Castel del Monte (Apulia)|Castel del Monte]], a 13th-century castle in [[Andria, Italy|Andria]]
| caption_2 = [[Mole Antonelliana]], a tower symbolising the city of [[Turin]]
| caption_3 = [[Colosseum]], famous [[Roman amphitheater]]
| denom_4 = €0.10
| denom_5 = €0.20
| denom_6 = €0.50
| image_4 = [[File:10 Cents, Italy.jpg|100px|The Birth of Venus by painter Sandro Botticelli]]
| image_5 = [[File:20 Cents, Italy.jpg|120px|Futurist sculpture Unique Forms of Continuity in Space by Umberto Boccioni]]
| image_6 = [[File:Eur.it.050.gif|150px|The Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius]]
| caption_4 = [[The Birth of Venus (Botticelli)|''The Birth of Venus'']] by [[Sandro Botticelli]]
| caption_5 = [[Futurism|Futurist]] sculpture ''[[Unique Forms of Continuity in Space]]'' by [[Umberto Boccioni]]
| caption_6 = [[Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius]]
| denom_7 = €1.00
| denom_8 = €2.00
| header_9 = €2 Coin Edge
| image_7 = [[File:Euro 2002 Italy (38850109360).jpg|150px|Vitruvian Man]]
| image_8 = [[File:2 Euro Italia Dante.jpg|150px|Dante Alighieri]]
| box_9 = [[File:2€ edge inv2.svg|155px]] for a total of 12 stars
| caption_7 = ''[[Vitruvian Man]]'', a drawing by [[Leonardo da Vinci]]
| caption_8 = [[Dante Alighieri]], an Italian [[Italian poetry|poet]], writer and philosopher, considered the father of the [[Italian language]]
}}

==Circulating mintage quantities==

{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;text-align:center"
|-
!|Face Value<ref>{{cite web | publisher=Henning Agt | url=http://www.euro-auflagen.de/index.php?lang=en | title=Circulating mintage quantities | access-date=2008-08-19 | archive-date=19 July 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719001855/http://www.euro-auflagen.de/index.php?lang=en | url-status=dead }}</ref>
!|€0.01
!|€0.02
!|€0.05
!|€0.10
!|€0.20
!|€0.50
!|€1.00
!|€2.00
|-
!|		2002	
||	1,348,599,501
||	1,098,866,250
||	1,341,442,204
||	1,142,083,000
||	1,411,536,000
||	1,136,418,000
||	965,725,300
||	463,402,200
|-
!|		2003	
||	9,637,000
||	21,555,000
||	1,844,000
||	29,714,000
||	25,893,000
||	44,563,000
||	66,230,000
||	36,098,000
|-
!|		2004	
||	99,925,000
||	119,925,000
||	9,925,000
||	4,925,000
||	4,925,000
||	4,925,000
||	4,925,000
||	6,925,000
|-
!|		2005	
||	179,943,900
||	119,943,900
||	69,943,900
||	99,943,900
||	4,943,900
||	4,943,900
||	4,943,900
||	61,943,900
|-
!|		2006	
||	158,951,700
||	195,951,700
||	118,951,700
||	179,951,700
||	4,951,700
||	4,951,700
||	107,951,700
||	9,951,700
|-
!|		2007	
||	214,953,000
||	139,953,000
||	84,953,000
||	104,953,000
||	4,953,000
||	4,953,000
||	134,953,000
||	4,953,000
|-
!|		2008	
||	180,000,000
||	135,000,000
||	90,000,000
||	105,000,000
||	5,000,000
||	5,000,000
||	135,000,000
||	2,500,000
|-
!|		2009
||      174,952,000
||      184,952,000
||      84,952,000
||      105,952,000
||      59,952,000
||      2,452,000
||      114,952,000
||      1,952,000
|-
!|		2010    
||      125,448,100
||      120,243,400
||      67,618,100
||      91,328,400
||      57,787,000
||      9,209,800
||      96,533,100
||      5,788,100
|-
!|		2011
||      133,691,709
||      109,158,400
||      37,096,565
||      76,119,500
||      67,758,340
||      5,000,000
||      98,033,010
||      14,065,890
|-
!|		2012
||      217,400,000
||      80,000,000
||      62,500,000
||      97,400,000
||      5,000,000 
||      5,000,000
||      5,000,000
||      27,000,000
|-
!|		2013
||      243,460,000
||      150,100,000
||      80,000,000
||      15,000,000
||      15,000,000 
||      5,000,000
||      5,000,000
||      10,000,000
|-
!|		2014
||      150,000,000
||      115,000,000
||      40,000,000
||      10,000,000
||      10,000,000 
||      5,000,000
||      5,000,000
||      3,000,000
|-
!|		2015
||      220,000,000
||      120,000,000
||      30,000,000
||      10,000,000
||      5,000,000 
||      5,000,000
||      5,000,000
||      2,000,000
|-
!|		2016
||      160,000,000
||      140,000,000
||      70,000,000
||      15,000,000
||      5,000,000 
||      5,000,000
||      3,000,000
||      2,000,000
|-
!|		2017
||      260,000,000
||      150,000,000
||      80,000,000
||      40,000,000
||      5,000,000 
||      3,000,000
||      3,000,000
||      2,000,000
|-
!|		2018
| colspan="2" rowspan="7"|      *
||      170,000,000
||      100,000,000
||      51,000,000 
||      2,000,000
||      1,000,000
||      24,000,000
|-
!|		2019
||      90,000,000
||      110,000,000
||      85,000,000 
||      20,000,000
||      1,000,000
||      12,000,000
|-
!|		2020
||      50,000,000
||      45,000,000
||      20,000,000 
||      20,000,000
||      1,000,000
||      14,000,000
|-
!|		2021
||      60,000,000
||      50,000,000
||      35,000,000 
||      20,000,000
||      1,000,000
||      25,000,000
|-
!|		2022
||      49,979,500
||      36,979,500
||      29,979,500
||      19,979,500
||      979,500
||      24,979,500
|-
!|		2023
||      69,977,000
||      49,977,000
||      36,977,000
||      19,977,000
||      977,000
||      21,977,000
|-
!|		2024
||      99,981,000
||      49,981,000
||      49,981,000
||      19,981,000
||      39,981,000
||      59,981,000
|-
| align=left colspan=9 |
<nowiki>*</nowiki> No coins were minted that year for that denomination<br /><nowiki>**</nowiki> Data not available yet<br /><nowiki>***</nowiki> Small quantities minted for sets only
|-
|}

==Identifying marks==
{{main|Identifying marks on euro coins}}

{|class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
| width=150px | '''National Identifier'''
| width=200px |'''RI'''
|-
|| '''Engravers Initials'''
||Different for each coin
|-
|| '''€2 Edge inscription'''
||[[File:Edge com2 s01.jpg|250px]]
|-
|}

==€2 commemorative coins==
{{main|€2 commemorative coins}}
<gallery>
File:€2_commemorative_coin_Italy_2007_TOR.jpg|50th Anniversary of the signing of the [[Treaty of Rome]] (2007)
File:€2 commemorative coin Italy 2008.jpg|60th Anniversary of the [[Universal Declaration of Human Rights]] (2008)
</gallery>

==See also==
*[[History of coins in Italy]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
{{Portal|Italy|Money|Numismatics}}
{{Commons category|Euro coins of Italy}}
*[https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/coins/html/it.en.html European Central Bank – Italy]
*[https://www.bancaditalia.it/compiti/emissione-euro/monete/index.html?com.dotmarketing.htmlpage.language=1 Banca d'Italia > Coins]

{{Euro topics}}
{{Historic Italian currency and coinage}}

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