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5 Euro Jacovitti - Cocco Bill, silver
| Issuer | Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBBLICA ITALIANA COCCO BILL |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Benito Jacovitti died in 1997, but his anarchic comic-strip cowboy Cocco Bill — first published in Il Vittorioso in 1957 — has remained a fixture of Italian popular culture long enough to earn a mint issue more than six decades after his debut. This coin is part of IPZS's ongoing series celebrating Italian comics and illustration, a program that has increasingly leaned into mid-century satirical art as a legitimate subject for commemorative coinage.
Jacovitti's work was notorious for its visual density and absurdist violence, and his relationship with Catholic youth press made his eventual canonization in metal a mildly ironic outcome.