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5 Euros Melchiorre Delfico
| Issuer | San Marino |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | The central field displays the crowned coat of arms of San Marino, featuring a shield bearing three towers on a mount, flanked by an olive branch to the left and an oak branch to the right. A ribbon scroll below the shield bears the national motto LIBERTAS. The encircling legend REPUBBLICA DI SAN MARINO arcs along the upper periphery, with the date 2006 positioned at the base. The entire design is framed by a beaded border. |
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| Mintage | 2006 R - - 65,000 |
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Melchiorre Delfico (1744–1835) was an Enlightenment-era jurist, economist, and historian whose career stretched across the turbulent transition from ancien régime to Napoleonic reorganization of the Italian peninsula. He served the Kingdom of Naples before retiring to San Marino, where he spent his final decades and became one of the republic's most prominent intellectual figures — contributing directly to its institutional self-presentation as a model of ancient liberty. San Marino has consistently used its commemorative coinage program to honor figures tied to that narrative, and Delfico fits squarely within it.