Coin catalog › Coins (Composition: Acmonital, Edge: Reeded/grained)
- Country:
- Italy
- Series:
- 1946~2001 - Republic (Lira) Commemorative
- Catalog codes:
- CopyWrong
- Themes:
- Engineers | Inventions | Inventors | Nobel Laureates | Radio
- Issued on:
- 1974
- Last issue date:
- 1974
- Distribution:
- Circulating Commemorative
- Mints:
- Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Roma, Italy
- Orientation:
- Coin alignment ↑O↓
- Shape:
- Circular
- Rim:
- Raised. Not decorated. Both sides
- Weight:
- 8 grams
- Diameter:
- 27.8 mm
- Thickness:
- 1.7 mm
- Face value:
- 100 ₤ - Italian lira
- Known mintage:
- 50,000,000
- Score:
- 13% Accuracy: Very High
- Description:
- Front: Early radio-wave receiver
between (left, period years) 1874 1974 (right, value) L.100 (Lire)
(bottom, name) GUGLIELMO MARCONI
mint mark: (below value) R (Roma Mint)
legend: none
Back: Head inventor Guglielmo Marconi
* 25 April 1874, Palazzo Marescalchi, Bologna, Italy
⚭1 (16 March 1905) Hon. Beatrice O'Brien (1882–1976,
3 daughters + 1 son, ⚮1 1924)
⚭2 (12 June 1927) Maria Cristina Bezzi-Scali (1900–1994, ⚮2 1966, daughter, Maria Elettra)
† heart attack, 20 July 1937 (aged 63) Rome, Italy
Buried: state funeral, Villa Griffone at Sasso Marconi, Emilia-Romagna
legend: (state name) REPVBBLICA ITALIANA
(bottom, spacer/5-pointed star) ☆ (pointed upwards)
designer: (bottom) MONASSI (Guerrino M. Monassi)
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