2024 Italy €5 Flavors of Italy – Tuscany BU

Celebrating The Cuisine Of Italy’s Tuscany Region

The connection between wine and food has long been a passion of foodies, and nowhere is the practice of enogastronomy—the art of knowing how to pair wine with food—been observed with more zeal than in Italy where delicious combinations of pasta, pizza, cheese, and wine have been handed down generation after generation through the centuries transmitting the values and essence of being Italian. Not only that, but each region in Italy boasts its own specialties, giving visitors to the home of the Roman emperors a delicious and mouthwatering variety of food and wine.

Brilliant Uncirculated Coins With Selective Colorization

In honor of this rich history, the Italian State Mint introduced the “Cultura Enogastronomica Italiana” (Italian Food and Wine Culture) series in 2020. Each issue is dedicated to a specific region and showcases famous monuments in the background with culinary treasures standing out in color. Each copper-nickel legal-tender €5 (five Euros) coin comes in Brilliant Uncirculated (BU) condition and comes housed in a themed in blister card that includes information about the region and the food and wine featured on the coin.

Cantucci Biscuits And Vin Santo Wine

Here you can secure a 2024-dated “Flavors of Italy” coin that pays tribute the Tuscany region and shows Vin Santo and Cantucci. Located in central Italy, Tuscany and its capital, Florence, is home to some of the world’s most recognizable Renaissance art and architecture. On the reverse you can see the colorized image of a delicious pile of Tuscan almond Biscotti biscuits called Cantucci and a glass of Vin Santo wine. Vin Santo is a naturally sweet wine made from white sundried grapes. After a delicious Italian meal, nothing is more satisfying than a glass of Vin Santo and Cantucci biscuits for dessert. After being dipped in the delicious late-harvest wine for a few seconds, the crispy Cantucci biscuits become wonderfully wet. The coin’s obverse shows the winged horse Pegasus—a famous symbol of Tuscany—hovering above the Sienese hills, vast vineyards, cypress trees, and the Tuscan coastline along the Tyrrhenian Sea. An inscription reads: “SAPORI D’ITALIA,” which translates to “flavors of Italy.”

Hard-To-Find Limited Edition

Coins from Italy’s State Mint are not widely available in North America given that the mint ships only into Europe and small portions of Asia. Due to our connections in the coin world, we were offered the opportunity to secure this popular offering from the Italian State Mint for distribution in North America! Just 7,000 of these 2024 Italy €5 Flavors of Italy – Tuscany Coins were ever released, so don’t wait, order yours now!