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1 Sobirana - Joan Martí i Alanis Episcopal Co-Prince, Latin
| Issuer | Andorra |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Andorra issued no coins of its own until 1976, relying entirely on French and Spanish currency in daily commerce for centuries. The 1980 sovereign series emerged from a deliberate assertion of institutional identity by the Co-Princes — in this case the Episcopal Co-Prince, the Bishop of Urgell — exercising a right to strike coinage that had existed on paper far longer than it had in practice. Joan Martí i Alanis, who held the bishopric from 1971 to 2003, was among the first ecclesiastical figures to appear on a modern Andorran issue.
The .918 gold fineness corresponds to 22-karat, a specification with deep roots in British sovereign coinage — an unusual reference point for a Pyrenean principality.