Italia - 1000 Liras 1998-R

World coins - Italy - 1000 Lire Silver .835, (14,60 g. 31,40 mm.) Minted in Rome 1998. 400th Anniversary of the birth of Gian Lorenzo Bernini

REPVBBLICA ITALIANA
COLANERI
Older portrait of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, one of the most important sculptor and architect of the Italian Baroque. In the background a view of St. Peter's Square with part of the paving and of the colonnades. The Square was the major work of Bernini as architect. Name of the author on the Square paving.

1598 1998
L. 1000
R
400 ANNI·NASCITA·G. L | . BERNINI
The disc of the facing sun, a particular of the sculpture "Truth unveiled by Time" now in the Rome Museum Galleria Borghese. Behind, as background, a composition made by the planimetry half of the Church of S.Andrea al Quirinale and half of St. Peter's Square forming an oval. Dates of the anniversary are above the planimetry, at sides of the Sun, as well as the value. Legend below together with the mint mark

KM# 201, Gigante# 477

Graded and Certified by PCGS as PR68DCAM.

2026-8853 (89792258)