San Marino is an enclave completely within
Italy. With little or no resources, the tiny nation has made income selling stamps and coins to tourists. From 1950 through the adoption of the euro in 1999 (by law, 2002 de facto), legal tender coins with dozens of ever changing designs have been produced in abundance by the Italian mint in Rome. These coins have been for the most part numismatically worthless, except for some silver and gold commemoratives.
San Marino has been allowed the privilege by the European bank to issue euro coins, and since then has issues a number of gold and silver commemoratives as well as circulating 2 euro commemoratives.
* 5 euro – silver –
Turin – 2005
* 10 euro – silver –
Uniformed Militia – 2005
* 20+50 euro – gold set – The
Scrovegni Chapel
The Scrovegni Chapel ( it, Cappella degli Scrovegni ), also known as the Arena Chapel, is a small church, adjacent to the Augustinian order, Augustinian monastery, the ''Monastero degli Eremitani'' in Padua, Italy, Padua, region of Veneto, I ...
– 2003
2 Euro
Bimetallic
* 2004:
Bartolomeo Borghesi (
historian and
numismatist)
* 2005:
Galileo Galilei (
physicist)
* 2006:
Christopher Columbus (
explorer)
* 2007:
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi ( , ;In his native Ligurian language, he is known as ''Gioxeppe Gaibado''. In his particular Niçard dialect of Ligurian, he was known as ''Jousé'' or ''Josep''. 4 July 1807 – 2 June 1882) was an Italian general, patr ...
(
politician)
* 2008:
European Year of Intercultural Dialogue
Intercultural dialogue has long been a principle supported by the European Union and its Institutions. The year 2008 was designated "European Year of Intercultural Dialogue" (EYID) by the European Parliament and the Member States of the European U ...
* 2009:
European Year of Creativity and Innovation
[AASFN, www.aasfn.sm]
5 euro in BU set
Every year the BU set contains a silver 5 euro coin
5 euro
In 2002–2009 a separate silver 5 euro has been issued every year.
10 euro
In 2002–2009 a silver 10 euro has been issued every year.
20 euro
In 2002–2008 a gold 20 euro has been issued every year.
50 euro
In 2002–2008 a gold 50 euro has been issued every year.
See also
*
€2 commemorative coins
*
Euro gold and silver commemorative coins (San Marino)
Sources
San Marino
Currencies of San Marino
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