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10 Diners - Joan Martí i Alanis Jesus standing in boat
| Issuer | Andorra |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Value | 10 Diners (10 ADD) |
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| Obverse description | The quartered coat of arms of Andorra, surmounted by a royal crown, is displayed at centre, flanked on either side by an ornate wreath of olive branches tied at the base by a ribbon bearing the motto UNITA. The shield's quarters depict the traditional arms of the co-princes and the Andorran emblems, with the word VIRTUS inscribed on the left branch and FORTIOR on the right. The denomination '10 D.' appears to the left and right of the wreath respectively, and the peripheral legend reads JOAN D.M. BISBE D'URGELL I PRINCEP D'ANDORRA, with the date 1999 at the base. |
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| Obverse lettering | JOAN · D . M . BISBE · D`URGELL · I · PRINCEP · D`ANDORRA 10 D . VIRTUS - UNITA - FORTIOR · 1999 · (Translation: Joan D.M. Bishop of Urgell and Prince of Andorra United virtue is stronger) |
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Andorra's coinage authority has historically contracted its strikes to foreign mints — this issue was produced at the Kremnica Mint in Slovakia, one of Europe's oldest continuously operating mints, active since 1328. The 10 Diners series of the 1990s served a frankly commemorative and bullion-adjacent function; Andorra had no truly independent monetary system, circulating French francs and Spanish pesetas in parallel by informal agreement rather than treaty.
Joan Martí i Alanis served as Bishop of Urgell — and therefore co-Prince of Andorra — from 1971 until his death in 2009, making him one of the longest-serving holders of that feudal office.