Time, Crono, marks men and things, men mark time and so times became memory, history to tell, to see, to read, written on paper or painted on walls.
A painter paints and depicts memories, a goldsmith moulds the precious metal, he makes it form and then jewel so that it became symbol of a feeling, of an emotion, because really, only feelings and emotions get the power to stop time or at least to slow it down.
Following these thoughts a spark arises which has inspired Claudio Menghini, goldsmith in Spello.
Coins which he created have the flavour of the ancient symbol of the same coin and lost in time.
Coin, before being a bargaining chip, represented the image of God, the image of a personage, a myth and it represented an advise, a sort of warning, so that what had happened remained a memory so as to make better times ahead, for future generations.
Claudio Menghini has shared the idea with the master Elvio Marchionni and this inspiration has become figure, representation to impress on minting die. So the idea was turned into tangible emotion become currency, emblem so that remembrance transmutes into memory.
Three coins which on a side bear the face of Bernardino di Betto ,called Pinturicchio and on the other side bear three pictures he painted into the Baglioni Chapel (known as "Bella") in Spello: Annunciations, Nativity, Controversy with the doctors in the temple.
Coins will also be a way to stop time and return to tell the story so that men understand the warning and build better stories to tell of those past, perhaps with eyes and colours of Pintoricchio.

Alberto D’Attanasio
Seminologia professor of languages and nonverbal History