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10 Euros Independence War - Manuela Malasaña
| Issuer | Banco de España |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#1200 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a three-quarter standing figure of Manuela Malasaña, the celebrated heroine of the Madrid uprising of 2 May 1808, dressed in traditional period attire with a shawl and skirt, her right hand resting on a ledge or plinth. The denomination 10 EURO is inscribed prominently to the left of the figure in two lines, flanked by the curved legend GUERRA DE LA INDEPENDENCIA to the left and BICENTENARIO to the right along the upper arc. The mint mark of the Real Casa de la Moneda (M crowned) appears in the lower right field. The design is enclosed within a beaded border. |
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Manuela Malasaña was a Madrid seamstress, likely seventeen years old, executed by French troops on 2 May 1808 — the same day the Dos de Mayo Uprising began. The official account holds that she was shot for carrying scissors, which Napoleonic forces treated as a concealed weapon under martial law. Whether factual or embellished in the decades after, the story made her one of the primary martyrs of Spanish resistance to French occupation, her name attached to the Madrileño neighborhood Malasaña long before this coin was struck.
The 2008 issue was part of a broader Banco de España commemorative program marking the bicentennial of the Peninsular War.