Commemorative coin 2 euro — 2006, Italy🇮🇹 (Winter Olympics)
2 Euro — 2006 Commemorative coin, Italy
⛸Winter Olympics in Turin 2006
🔘The coin depicts a racing skier and the visitor attraction of Turin, the Mole Antonelliana (which incidentally is also depicted on the Italian 2-cent coin), together with a large number of inscriptions: above the skier’s head, GIOCHI INVERNALI (“Winter Games”); below the tower, the name of the host city TORINO;
🔘beside the skier’s right thigh, the engraver’s initials (MCC); also to the right of the skier, the year mark (written vertically); and finally, to the right of the tower, the monogram of the Italian Republic (RI) and the mint mark (R). The twelve stars of the European Union surround the design on the outer ring of the coin.
Cost of commemorative coin 2 euro 2006 — Italy:
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⚡️Circulation: 40,000,000
📰 Coin context
🏅The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially the XX Olympic Winter Games (Italian: XX Giochi olimpici invernali) and also known as Torino 2006, were a winter multi-sport event held from 10 to 26 February 2006 in Turin, Italy. This marked the second time Italy had hosted the Winter Olympics, the first being in 1956 in Cortina d’Ampezzo; Italy had also hosted the Summer Olympics in 1960 in Rome.
👉Turin was selected as the host city for the 2006 Games in June 1999. The official motto of Torino 2006 was “Passion lives here”. The Games’ logo depicted a stylized profile of the Mole Antonelliana building, drawn in white and blue ice crystals, signifying the snow and the sky. The crystal web was also meant to portray the web of new technologies and the Olympic spirit of community. The 2006 Olympic mascots were Neve (“snow” in Italian), a female snowball, and Gliz, a male ice cube.
👉Italy will host the Winter Olympics again in 2026, scheduled to be held in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo.
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