O nouă monedă comemorativă a fost lansată în Italia de 2 €: Plautus - 24.01.2016

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Another commemorative 2-euro coins of which a first image we have known in recent hours, which Italy is dedicated to 2200 Anniversary of the Death of Plautus, playwright in ancient Rome that reached enormous popularity among his contemporaries. 

1.5 million coins as issue volume are announced as the date for the entry into service has not been provided. 

Themes represented in the currency

In the center of the core of the coin two scenic masks represented a 74.6 cm mosaic made with polychrome marble tiles in the second century appear. C., which was probably function Pavimental building an imperial emblem on the Aventine, which found in 1824 and is currently held in the Capitoline Museums in Rome.

The masks belong to two "types" of the New Comedy, developed during the Hellenistic period: the young woman, sometimes afflicted by his misfortunes, and slave, cowardly and sly.

The female mask depicts a woman with big eyes and mouth wide open; between the hair, curled into long ringlets, a ribbon knotted in a loop in the center of the forehead it appears. In man's facial features they are accentuated and ridiculed: the enormous mouth, long and flattened nose, protruding eyes, wrinkled cheeks; on the head rests a crown of ivy and berries, linked to the Dionysian cult ornament that played such an important role in the birth of Greek theater.

Above masks, on the representation of a Roman theater, the initials "IR" of the issuing country (Italian Republic), and spread to the sides and below, do the brand of the Italian mint in Rome "R" , the initials "LDS" of the designer, Luciana De Simoni, and the years of commemoration "AC 184" and "2016". While at the bottom, in exergue, the inscription "PLAUTO".

Text: Carlos Pelaez

Plautus

Tito Maccio Plautus (Sarsina, current Italy-Rome 251 BC, 184 BC). It was a Latino playwright. Plautus was devoted exclusively to comedy, modeled the new Greek comedy, which he adapted to the Roman taste and apparently contrasted with other contemporary Roman works, mixing characters and situations.

Albeit from entirely conventional situations, Plautus masterfully managed to combine action and dialogue going with a live rhythm of intrigue to the portrait of manners, and knew their texts print a large dose of lyricism and fantasy.

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