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1 Diner - Joan Martí i Alanis Episcopal Co-Prince
| Issuer | Andorra |
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| Year | 1983 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Reverse description | The quartered national arms of Andorra are depicted centrally within a circular frame, showing the four traditional heraldic quarters: the mitre and crozier of the Bishop of Urgell (upper left), the vertical pales of Catalonia (upper right and lower left), and two cattle passant representing the Count of Foix (lower right). The denomination numeral '1' appears to the left of the shield and the initial 'D' to the right, together indicating '1 Diner'. The date 1983 is inscribed in the exergue below the shield, flanked by decorative dots. The Latin motto VIRTVS · VNITA · FORTIOR curves along the upper rim. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Andorra's dual co-princeship — shared between the Bishop of Urgell and the President of France — is one of the oldest surviving feudal arrangements in Europe, dating to a pareatge of 1278. Joan Martí i Alanis held the episcopal seat from 1971 to 2003, making him the co-prince through Andorra's entire transition to a constitutional monarchy in 1993. This 1983 issue predates that constitution by a decade, struck when Andorra still operated under medieval governance structures with no formal currency of its own — diners were minted for collectors, not circulation.