Pinturicchio is the name under which Bernardino di Betto, born in Perugia around 1454, entered the history of art. He died in Siena in 1513, and five centuries later San Marino honoured him with this 2 euro commemorative of 2013.

His name is tied to some of the great fresco cycles of the Renaissance. Between 1492 and 1494 he decorated the Borgia Apartments in the Vatican for Pope Alexander VI, and later the Piccolomini Library in Siena Cathedral, whose frescoes tell the life of Pope Pius II.

The coin, however, draws on a different work, the fresco Christ among the Doctors, adapted for the national side by designer Claudia Momoni. The map of Europe on the common side is the same one found on every 2 euro piece.

In UNC condition the coin has never circulated, so the slender figures of the fresco and the small lettering keep their original sharpness. In a collection of Italian painters on San Marino coins, it represents the Perugia-born master whose frescoes survive in the Vatican and in Siena.