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10 Diners - Joan Martí i Alanis Claudio Monteverdi
| Issuer | Andorra |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Currency | Diner (1977-2014) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A large bearded bust of the Italian Baroque composer Claudio Monteverdi is portrayed in high relief at center, facing slightly to the left. To the left of the effigy, organ pipes and a musical score are depicted in the field, referencing Monteverdi's career as a composer and organist. To the right, a detailed rendering of the Basilica di San Marco in Venice — where Monteverdi served as maestro di cappella — rises above a suggestion of water, alluding to the Venetian lagoon. The legend 'CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI' arcs along the upper border, while the dates '1567–1643' appear in the lower field. |
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Andorra's late-1990s commemorative program leaned heavily on cultural figures with no direct connection to the principality — Monteverdi among them. The series was authorized under Bishop Joan Martí i Alanis, one of the two co-princes whose ecclesiastical authority over Andorra derived from the Bishop of Urgell, a position unbroken since the 1278 paréage. Monteverdi died in Venice in 1643, nearly a century after composing the madrigals that made his reputation, and long before his later operatic work was properly catalogued.
KM#146 is a standard bullion-adjacent issue with limited secondary market depth.