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| Location | Italy |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Large high-relief frontal effigy of Giosuè Carducci filling the field, depicting the poet with voluminous hair, heavy brows, and a full moustache and beard rendered in expressive engraved detail. The legend arcs along the left and right periphery, and the engraver's signature 'molteni 77' appears in the lower right field. |
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| Reverse description | Abstract modernist composition in relief featuring multiple groups of parallel raised bars of varying sizes arranged at different angles across the field, divided by a horizontal line, with a prominent angular geometric form to the right. The background is textured with incised hatching. The mint signature 'S.JOHNSON' appears in the lower left. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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