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5 Euro Jacovitti - Jak Mandolino
| Issuer | Italian State Mint (Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato) |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Currency | Euro (2002-date) |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays a bold, full-color typographic composition spelling 'JACOVITTI' in large, stylized balloon-letter characters, each decorated with distinct colorful patterns including stripes, checkers, polka dots, and floral motifs rendered in the characteristic comic style of Benito Jacovitti. The denomination 5 EURO appears in relief along the right field. The date 2024 is inscribed vertically along the left field, the Rome Mint mark 'R' appears at the upper center, and the engraver's name MOMONI is incuse along the lower center of the field. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Benito Jacovitti spent decades as one of Italy's most anarchic cartoonists, his work dense with salami, skeletons, and visual chaos that defied every convention of postwar Italian illustration. "Jak Mandolino" is among his recurring characters — part of a cast that populated the pages of Il Vittorioso and later Il Giornalino from the 1940s onward. The IPZS has issued a series of collector coins honoring his characters, this being among the later releases.
Jacovitti died in 1997, leaving an estate now managed actively by his family, whose cooperation with the Mint was required for licensing.