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10 000 Pesetas - Juan Carlos I Charles V
| Issuer | Royal Mint of Spain (Real Casa de la Moneda) |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1868-2001) |
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| Obverse description | Left-facing effigy of King Juan Carlos I attired in the full-dress uniform of Captain General of the Spanish Army, rendered in high relief with fine detail to the medals, epaulettes, and insignia. The portrait is positioned centrally within the field, conveying a formal and stately character consistent with official royal portraiture. The surrounding legend identifies the monarch and denomination, with the Madrid mint mark also present. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued to mark the five-hundredth anniversary of the death of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain as Carlos I — a ruler whose territories stretched from Castile to the Netherlands to the Americas, yet who abdicated everything in 1556 and retired to the monastery of Yuste in Extremadura, where he died two years later. The pairing of Juan Carlos I with Charles V carries deliberate dynastic weight: both belong to the Habsburg and Bourbon lines that have defined Spanish kingship across five centuries.
At 168.75 grams and 73 millimeters, this is one of the largest silver issues in the modern Spanish commemorative program — struck in .925 fineness rather than the finer .999 used by some contemporaries, consistent with Royal Mint practice for large-format collector pieces of this period.