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2 Euros Count of Cavour
| Issuer | Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Thickness | 2.2 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays the common euro area design by Luc Luycx, featuring a relief map of the European continent extending beyond the coin's inner disc into the outer ring, depicted without national borders to symbolise European unity. The face value 2 EURO appears to the left of the map, with the engraver's initials LL incorporated into the design. The twelve stars of the European Union are distributed across the outer ring. |
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Issued to mark the 150th anniversary of Italian unification — a process Cavour engineered through calculated diplomacy and backroom deals with Napoleon III rather than the romantic revolutionary fervor that history often assigns to the Risorgimento. As Piedmontese Prime Minister, he quietly ceded Nice and Savoy to France in exchange for military support, a transaction that outraged Garibaldi, who had been born in Nice.
Italy would not formally celebrate the full sesquicentennial until 2011; this coin appeared a year early, timed to Cavour's own bicentenary of birth on August 10, 1810.