Cook Islands 2012 5$ Angels Amor Victorious CARAVAGIO Silver Proof Coin

SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • Mintage Limit - 1000
  • Each coin is struck from 20g of pure silver
  • Coin with Colour Printed
  • Coin in capsule+with Certificate of Authenticity

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  • Mintage Limit - 1000
  • Each coin is struck from 20g of pure silver
  • Coin with Colour Printed
  • Coin in capsule+with Certificate of Authenticity
Amor Vincit Omnia ("Love Conquers All", known in English by a variety of names including Amor Victorious, Victorious Cupid, Love Triumphant, Love Victorious, or Earthly Love) is a painting by the Italian early realist / post-Mannerist artist Caravaggio.

Amor Vincit Omnia shows Amor, the Roman Cupid, wearing dark eagle wings, half-sitting on or perhaps climbing down from what appears to be a table. Scattered around are the emblems of all human endeavours – violin and lute, armour, coronet, square and compasses, pen and manuscript, bay leaves, and an astral globe, tangled and trampled under Cupid’s foot. The painting illustrates the line from Virgil's Eclogues X.69, Omnia vincit amor et nos cedamus amori ("Love conquers all; let us all yield to love!"). A musical manuscript on the floor shows a large "V". It has therefore been suggested also that the picture is a coded reference to the attainments of Vincenzo Giustiniani: his Genoese family ruled Chios (until the island's capture by the Turks) in 1622, hence the coronet; the cultivated Marchese also wrote about music and painting (pen, manuscript and musical instruments), was constructing an imposing new palazzo (geometrical instruments), studied astronomy (astral sphere), and was praised for his military prowess (armour). The symbology thus holds the possible reading: Vincenzo Conquers All. Giustiniani is said to have prized it above all other works in his collection.
Product Details

Data sheet

Year:
2012
Face Value:
5 Dollars
Metal:
Silver
Fineness:
925/1000
Weight
20g
Size (mm):
30x35
Mintage:
1000
Quality:
Proof
Certificate COA:
Yes
Presentation Case:
No
Country:
Cook Islands
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