2013 AD., Germany, 200th anniversary birthday of Richard Wagner commemorative, Munich mint, 10 Euro, KM 316a.
Germany, Federal Republic, commemorative issue "200th anniversary birthday of Richard Wagner", engraver: Erich Ott, Munich mint ("D"), 2013 AD.,
10 Euro (32,5 mm / 14,10 g), copper-nickel (CuNi25), 14,00 g theor. mint weight, mintage 1.100.000 , medal alignment ↑↑, plain, incuse lettered edge,
Obv.: BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND 2013 / D / 10 EURO , the German national emblem eagle at center, 12 stars of Europe in a circle around, mint mark D in right field above.
Rev.: 200. GEBURTSTAG RICHARD WAGNER / {OE} / 1813-1883 , his bust facing left, engraver´s monogram in left field, his dates below.
Edge: plain with incuse inscription "WANDEL UND WECHSEL LIEBT, WER LEBT" (who lives likes change and transition).
KM 316a .
Year / Mint Mark / Mintage
2012 / D / 1.100.000
(plus a similar proof issue KM 316, made of 0.625 silver)
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is primarily known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Weber and Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionised opera through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk ("total work of art"), by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama, and which was announced in a series of essays between 1849 and 1852. Wagner realised these ideas most fully in the first half of the four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung). more on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wagner