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1.5 Euro Castle of La Mota
| Issuer | Royal Spanish Mint (Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre) |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Composition | Copper-nickel (75% copper, 25% nickel) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a non-colored, entirely struck design featuring a concentric gear-like or cog-wheel border motif in relief, echoing the castle battlements theme of the series. At the center of the field, the denomination "1,5 EURO" is inscribed in two lines in bold relief, with the Madrid Mint mark "M" positioned to the right of the denomination. The curved legend "CASTILLOS DEL MUNDO" (Castles of the World) arcs beneath the denomination across the lower central field, identifying the commemorative series to which this issue belongs. |
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La Mota, the Castilian fortress rising above Medina del Campo, served as a royal prison under the Catholic Monarchs — most notoriously housing Cesare Borgia, who escaped its walls in 1506 in what remains one of the more audacious breakouts of the Renaissance. The 1.5 euro denomination itself is a Spanish mint convention for collector-oriented issues with no circulation function, placing this squarely in the FNMT's ongoing regional monuments series.
Borgia descended from his tower cell on a rope of knotted bedsheets and fled to Navarre, where his father-in-law sheltered him.