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5 Scudi Madonna della Seggiola
| Issuer | Azienda Autonoma di Stato Filatelica e Numismatica (AASFN) |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Weight | 16.96 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a finely rendered relief adaptation of Raphael's celebrated tondo painting Madonna della Seggiola (c. 1513–1514), depicting the Virgin Mary seated and tenderly embracing the Christ Child, with the young Saint John the Baptist visible to the right. The composition conveys warmth and intimacy through softly modeled drapery and naturalistic figural forms. The inscription MADONNA DELLA SEGGIOLA curves along the upper legend, while the denomination 5 SCUDI appears along the lower margin. The Rome Mint mark R is positioned at the lower left field, with the engravers' signatures D. CORNELL and L. DE SIMONI INC. flanking the design at lower left and lower right respectively. |
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San Marino's AASFN has issued commemorative gold with some regularity since the 1970s, but the Madonna della Seggiola pieces occupy a specific niche: they reference Raphael's tondo painting held in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, a work that has been reproduced on coinage across multiple Italian-sphere jurisdictions. The choice is not arbitrary — San Marino's cultural identity has long leaned on Renaissance artistic patrimony as a point of civic prestige, despite the republic having no direct historical claim to the work itself.
Fr#73 is well-documented in Friedberg's gold census with modest mintage figures typical of San Marino's late-1990s collector series.