San Marino was admitted to the United Nations on March 2, 1992, ending decades of deliberate non-membership — the republic had long maintained that full UN participation conflicted with its neutrality. The commemorative coinage program surrounding accession was characteristically prolific; San Marino treated the event as a rare occasion to issue across multiple denominations simultaneously.
Fr#57 places this squarely in Friedberg's Italian gold listings, where San Marino issues consistently appear in lower mintage runs than their Italian counterparts from the same period.
San Marino was admitted to the United Nations on March 2, 1992, ending decades of deliberate non-membership — the republic had long maintained that full UN participation conflicted with its neutrality. The commemorative coinage program surrounding accession was characteristically prolific; San Marino treated the event as a rare occasion to issue across multiple denominations simultaneously.
Fr#57 places this squarely in Friedberg's Italian gold listings, where San Marino issues consistently appear in lower mintage runs than their Italian counterparts from the same period.