100 Lire  

Obverse

Female head with towered crown facing left, hair swathed in fabric. Two stars below neck cut with name of the author on the right

Script: Latin

Lettering:
REPVBBLICA ITALIANA
* * L.CRETARA

Translation:
Italian Republic
L.Cretara

Engraver: Laura Cretara

Reverse

Inside a large circle the value with big numbered fraction and the mint mark and the date below. In the outer ring from top clockwise: a bird in flight, a wheat stalk, a dolphin and an olive branch, symbols of the skies, of the seas and of the earths of Italy but also of the virtues.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
100
R LIRE
1998

Engraver: Laura Cretara

Edge

Four segments of reeding with plain edge in between