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10 Diners - Joan Martí i Alanis Slaughter of the Innocents
| Issuer | Andorra |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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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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| Reverse script | Latin |
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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 since the 1278 Paréage established joint French and episcopal sovereignty over the territory. This coin was issued under his authority as co-Prince, a constitutional arrangement that remains in force today and gives the sitting bishop genuine, if largely ceremonial, sovereign standing.
The Slaughter of the Innocents subject places this piece within Andorra's late-1990s program of biblically themed commemoratives, several of which referenced early Christian iconographic traditions tied to the Pyrenean ecclesiastical heritage of the Urgell diocese.