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10 Euros - Juan Carlos I Spanish galleon
| Issuer | Real Casa de la Moneda (Royal Mint of Spain) |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Engraver(s) | José Espinós Gisbert |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | JUAN CARLOS I REY DE ESPAÑA · 10 EURO · |
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This piece belongs to a commemorative series launched by the Real Casa de la Moneda to mark Spain's adoption of the euro in 2002 — a politically loaded moment in which the peseta, in circulation since 1869, was retired overnight. The galleon subject was a deliberate choice, anchoring the new currency to an imperial maritime past at the precise moment Spain surrendered monetary independence to Frankfurt.
The KM#1089 designation places it firmly within the first wave of Spanish euro commemoratives, struck in the same year circulation coinage changed hands in shops.