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1 Diner - Joan Martí i Alanis Episcopal Co-Prince

Issuer Andorra
Year 1983
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Diameter 25 mm
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Obverse lettering JOAN · D.M. BISBE · D`URGELL · I · PRINCEP · DE · LES · VALLS · D`ANDORRA
(Translation: Joan D.M. Bishop of Urgell and Prince of the Andorra Valleys)
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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.

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