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Description:
Obverse
In the field a composition symbolizing the fertility of Earth: on a semicircle standing for the terrestrial globe, a seed fed by water and about to germinate; above the Earth, a vine shoot, an olive branch and a sheaf of wheat growing out of a tree trunk; above, archshaped inscription “NUTRIRE IL PIANETA”; on the left, initialsofthe designer Maria Grazia Urbani “MGU”; on the right, acronym of the Italian Republic “RI” and the letter “R” identifyingthe Mintof Rome; in the middle, logo of the EXPO MILANO 2015; all around, the twelve stars of the European Union.
Reverse
A map, next to the facial value, shows the European continent without borders.
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