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1.5 Euro Okapi
| Issuer | Royal Mint of Spain |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Currency | Euro (2002-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents an intricate all-over design of engraved branches, foliage, and scattered animal paw prints covering the entire field in low relief. At center, a raised circular cartouche with a scalloped border contains the denomination 1,5 EURO in large incuse numerals and lettering arranged across two lines. Circumscribing the inner cartouche is the series legend ANIMALES EN PELIGRO DE EXTINCIÓN (Endangered Animals) in capital letters. Beneath the cartouche, the crowned M mintmark of the Real Casa de la Moneda, Madrid, is flanked by two raised dots. |
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Spain's "Endangered Wildlife" series, under which this piece falls, has drawn consistent criticism from numismatic purists for issuing face values — here 1.5 euro — that have no legal tender circulation basis in the eurozone's standard denomination structure. The okapi itself wasn't confirmed to Western science until 1901, when British explorer P.L. Sclater formally described the species from skins obtained in the Congo; for decades prior, explorer reports of a striped forest animal had been dismissed as native folklore.