Beautiful Antique Finish Sterling Silver Coin with Miniature Sculpture Insert. Mintage limited to only 2500 coins! FIRST ISSUE OF THIS SERIES. This coin features a real miniature of the sculpture. Perhaps the most famous statue in the world today is the Statue of David by Michelangelo. In 1501 Michelangelo was commissioned to create the David by the Arte della Lana (Guild of Wool Merchant), who were responsible for the upkeep and the decoration of the Cathedral in Florence. For this purpose, he was given a block of marble which Agostino di Duccio had already attempted to fashion forty years previously, perhaps with the same subject in mind. Michelangelo places him in the most perfect contraposto, as in the most beautiful Greek representations of heroes. The right-hand side of the statue is smooth and composed while the left-hand side, from the outstretched foot all the way up to the disheveled hair is openly active and dynamic. The muscles and the tendons are developed only to the point where they can still be interpreted as the perfect instrument for a strong will, and not to the point of becoming individual self-governing forms. Once the statue was completed, a committee of the highest ranking citizens and artists decided that it must be placed in the main square of the town, in front of the Palazzo Vecchio, the Town Hall. It was the first time since antiquity that a large statue of a nude was to be exhibited in a public place. Strength and Wrath were the two most important virtues, characteristic of the ancient patron of the city Hercules. Both these qualities of passionate strength and wrath were embodied in the Statue of David. Please see our other listings for. More great coins & treasures. The item “MICHELANGELO’S DAVID Antique Finish Sterling Silver Art Coin 2015 Cook Islands” is in sale since Thursday, June 23, 2016. This item is in the category “Coins & Paper Money\Coins\ World\Australia & Oceania\South Pacific”. The seller is “son-montuno” and is located in Illinois. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Circulated/Uncirculated: Uncirculated PROOF
• Composition: .925 Sterling Silver
• Year: 2010
• Country/Region of Manufacture: Cook Islands
• Certification: Mint Issued COA