Female head with towered crown facing left, hair swathed in fabric. Two stars below neck cut with name of the author on the right
Obverse script
Latin
Obverse lettering
REPVBBLICA ITALIANA
* * L.CRETARA (Translation: Italian Republic L.Cretara)
Reverse description
Inside a large circle the value with big numbered fraction and the mint mark and the date below. In the outer ring from top clockwise: a bird in flight, a wheat stalk, a dolphin and an olive branch, symbols of the skies, of the seas and of the earths of Italy but also of the virtues.
Reverse script
Latin
Reverse lettering
100
R LIRE
1994
Edge
Four segments of reeding with plain edge in between
Mint
R Rome, Italy (476-date)
Mintage
1993 R - Proof - In Proof Sets only - 8 500 1993 R - Schön #157.1; small head - 1993 R - Schön #157.2; large head - 211 507 200 1994 R - - 180 000 000 1994 R - Proof - In Proof Sets only - 8 500 1996 R - - 210 000 000 1996 R - Proof - In Proof Sets only - 8 000 1997 R - - 70 000 000 1997 R - Proof - In Proof Sets only - 8 440 1998 R - - 120 000 000 1998 R - Proof - In Proof Sets only - 9 000 1999 R - - 120 000 000 1999 R - Proof - In Proof Sets only - 8 500 2000 R - BU - In BU Sets only - 61 400 2000 R - Proof - In Proof Sets only - 8 960 2001 R - BU - In BU Sets only - 100 000 2001 R - Proof - In Proof Sets only - 10 000