In 1970, Italy issued a silver coin from 1,000 lire, commemorating the centenary of Rome, capital of Italy. Consists of 835 silver, the coin weighs 14.60 grams and has a diameter of 31.4 mm. On the contour has the inscription in relief ITALIAN REPUBLIC *******. The coin was produced in 3,011,000 pieces. The obverse, designed by Mattia Guerrino Monassi, depicts the goddess Concordia veiled and traces the iconography of a Roman Republican denarius issued by a judge belonging to the family Aemilia in 62 BC The reverse, however, was designed by Laura Cretara and reproduces the design of Michelangelo Buonarroti for the paving of the Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome. This is the reverse, in some way historical, because it is the first minting of a coin Italian made ​​by a woman.

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