Giampaoli was as a consultant to the Turkish State Mint and was the designer of the Ataturk effigy on the coins starting with the 1 Lira of 1957.
Same portrait was also used on the 10 Lira of 1960 silver commmemorative 10 Lira pieces.also on the 25.000.000 coin minted in 1998 as part of the 75th anniversary of the republic(*27, Page. 183).
He worked at the Italian Mint between 1936 and 1963. designed many Italian coins as well as medals and coins for Vatican, San Marino and Malta. He consulted Germany, France, Spain, Israel and Tunisia.
Rather recent auction pieces indicate that he also worked on 25 Kurus coins bearing Ataturk’s portrait but eventually the figure of an Anatolian woman carrying an artillery shell was used for those coins. His signature in its Latinisized form (J. Pvlvs) can be seen below the portrait.
There are auto-portraits of Giampaoli on medals(*1) where his name is Latinified. The page describes his resoning for using thistle on his self medals as “In the language of flowers and plants, the thistle symbolizes solitude and isolation and this meaning is due to the tendency of this plant to grow in inaccessible places. An ability to make one’s way through difficulties – yet “not without effort”, indeed.”
His brother Celestino Giampaoli also was affiliated with the Turkish State Mint (*2) during the period which acmonital (Acciaio Monetale Italiano / Italian monetary steel) was used for Turkish coins. It is a variant of stainless steel that is harder than silver or cupronickel hence requires specific machinery for processing.
[1] https://www.cronacanumismatica.com/un-refuso-due-medaglie-e-limpresa-del-maestro-giampaoli
[2] https://www.dizionariobiograficodeifriulani.it/giampaoli-pietro-celestino-e-vittorio
- http://slvs.infoteca.it/buje/default.aspx?id=4945
- http://slvs.infoteca.it/buje/default.aspx?id=4827
- http://www.icsedegliano.it/sezioni/studenti/1011/PFriulano/03IdentikitMedais06.html
- https://www.cronacanumismatica.com/un-refuso-due-medaglie-e-limpresa-del-maestro-giampaoli/
- https://www.umbertomoruzzi.it/il-segreto-della-500-lire-una-storia-italiana.html
