2002 AD., Italy, circulation issue, 2 Euro, Rome mint, KM 217.

Italy, regular circulation issue, engravers: Maria Carmela Colaneri (obverse) and Luc Luycx (reverse), Rome mint ("R"), 2002 AD.,
2 Euro (ø 25,8 mm / 8,43 g), bimetallic, brass plated nickel center in a copper-nickel ring, 8,50 g. theor. mint weight, mintage 463.552.000 , axis medal alignment ↑↑ (0°) , reeded edge with incuse lettering and stars: six times the sequence "2 * * " alternately upright and inverted 2,
Obv.: {RI} / 2002 / R / M.C.C. , on the brass plated nickel center: Portrait of Dante Alighieri facing left (by painter Raphael), {RI} -monogram of the Italian Republic, date and mint mar R to left, engraver´s initials below neck; all within 12 stars of Europe in a circle around on the copper-nickel ring.
Rev.: 2 EURO / LL , map of Europe (1st map type showing borders), to right 6 lines and twelve stars of Europe on the edge; engraver´s initials LL to r. below O.
KM 217 ; Schön 235 .
from circulation in 2019

Year / Mint Mark / Mintage / Details
2002 R 463.552.000
2002 R 150,000 only in Sets
2003 R 36,210,000
2003 R 100,000 only in Sets
2003 R 12,000 proof
2004 R 7,000,000
2004 R 65,000 only in Sets
2004 R 10,000 proof
2005 R 62,000,000
2005 R 49,500 only in Sets
2005 R 6,600 proof
2006 R 10,000,000
2006 R 44,000 only in Sets
2006 R 5,800 proof
2007 R 5,000,000
2007 R 39,000 only in Sets
2007 R 5,500 proof

Durante degli Alighieri, simply referred to as Dante (ca. 1265–1321), was a major Italian poet of the Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called La Comedia and later called Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.
In Italy he is known as il Sommo Poeta ("the Supreme Poet") or just il Poeta. He, Petrarch and Boccaccio are also known as "the three fountains" or "the three crowns". Dante is also called the "Father of the Italian language".

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (April 6 or March 28, 1483 – April 6, 1520), better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.
The portrait is housed in the Pope Julius II Wing of the Vatican Palace.