Murrine Millefiori Glass Art $5 .999 pure silver coin. The exceptionally popular Murrine Millefiori set comes to a close in 2017 with the third and final issue of this award winning series. State of the art minting technology is combined with the millenia-old Millefiori tradition. Mintage: only 999 pcs. worldwide. With COA and wooden box. The glass processing technique Millefiori was already known in Ancient Rome and is nowadays mainly continued on the island of Murano near Venice. Firstly long glass rods, known as murrine, are handmade, cured and then cut into discs. After that the individual multi-coloured glass discs are placed into a mould, heated gently and slowly melted. Thus, unique Patterns emerge, of which no two are alike. The finished artwork explains without words why Millefiori means «thousand flowers» in Italian.
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