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10 Euros - Felipe VI Battle of Lepanto
| Issuer | Royal Mint of Spain (Real Casa de la Moneda) |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | Detailed polychrome depiction of the Galera Real, the flagship galley of the Holy League during the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. The vessel is shown in full profile with elaborately decorated hull, oars, and rigging, rendered in color against the coin's silver field to emphasize its historical grandeur. The Galera Real, constructed at the Royal Shipyards of Barcelona in 1568, was the largest galley of its era and was commanded by Don Juan de Austria. Surrounding inscriptions identify the subject, the commemorated anniversary, the denomination, and the mint mark, while the mint mark 'M' appears in the legend. |
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| Mint | Royal Mint of Spain (Real Casa de la Moneda), Madrid, Spain (1591-date) |
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The Battle of Lepanto in October 1571 was the largest naval engagement in the Mediterranean since antiquity — roughly 400 Ottoman vessels met a Holy League fleet assembled under Don John of Austria, with Spain, Venice, and the Papal States contributing the bulk of the force. The Ottoman navy lost somewhere between 200 and 230 ships and an estimated 30,000 men. It was the first major check on Ottoman naval expansion in the western Mediterranean, though Selim II rebuilt his fleet within two years.
Miguel de Cervantes served as a soldier aboard a League galley at Lepanto and took a arquebus wound that permanently disabled his left hand — a detail he mentioned with some pride in the prologue to his Novelas ejemplares.