Euro coin set 2024 BU with 5 euro bimetallic coin

The Vatican Mint dedicates the uncirculated Euro Coin Set 2024 with the 5 euro bimetallic coin to 650th anniversary of the death of Francesco Petrarca (Arezzo 1304 - Arquà 1374). Artist Gabriele Di Maulo pays tribute to the great poet from Arezzo, Italy, by transforming into an image one of the poems dedicated to his beloved Laura. In the bottom right-hand corner of the coin’s reverse side, we see a profile of the poet while offering a laurel branch to Laura, whose figure “angelic in form” appears with her hair “scattered like an aura” stirred by a light breeze. The image is expressive and leads us back to the notion of idealised eternal love, expressed several times by Petrarca in the Canzoniere collection of poems, one of the most important works of Italian literature.