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10 Euros Gioacchino Rossini
| Issuer | Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Thickness | 2.8 mm |
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| Reverse description | Stylised interior view of a classical opera house, with tiered box-seat galleries receding into perspective on both sides and an ornate gilded proscenium arch visible in the background. A bird in flight, carrying a string of musical notes in its beak, dominates the centre-left of the composition, evoking the lyrical genius of Rossini. A staff bearing musical notation is rendered to the right. The Italian Mint logo appears at the top of the field. In the lower exergue, the denomination 10 EURO and the date 2014 flank the Rome mint mark R. |
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| Mintage | 2014 R - Proof - 5,200 |
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Issued to mark the 150th anniversary of Rossini's death — he died in Paris in 1868, having composed nothing of consequence for the last four decades of his life. The silence baffled contemporaries. After William Tell in 1829, one of the most productive composers in Europe simply stopped, citing poor health and, by some accounts, indifference to the operatic world he had helped reshape.
Italy's commemorative silver program has produced dozens of cultural figures in this format; Rossini's entry is unremarkable within the series technically, though the subject's biographical peculiarity gives it more to say than most.