Palau has built a substantial business issuing collector coins themed around European cultural figures — a practice with no connection to the issuer's history or currency needs, driven entirely by the numismatic novelty market. This piece belongs to that trade.
Dante died in Ravenna in 1321, exiled from Florence, the city that had condemned him to death in absentia two decades earlier.
Palau has built a substantial business issuing collector coins themed around European cultural figures — a practice with no connection to the issuer's history or currency needs, driven entirely by the numismatic novelty market. This piece belongs to that trade.
Dante died in Ravenna in 1321, exiled from Florence, the city that had condemned him to death in absentia two decades earlier.