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10 Euros Salvador Dalí - El gran masturbador
| Issuer | Real Casa de la Moneda (Royal Mint of Spain) |
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| Year | 2004 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | Adaptation of Salvador Dalí's 1929 Surrealist masterpiece 'El gran masturbador' (The Great Masturbator), engraved in a combination of high relief and incuse line work across the entire field. The composition features the iconic elongated biomorphic head form, a reclining female figure, a large rotting fish carcass to the left, and numerous other surrealist elements including suspended organic shapes and embracing figures. The denomination 10 EURO appears in large numerals at the upper right, accompanied by Dalí's facsimile signature at the upper left. The crowned M mint mark of the Real Casa de la Moneda and the date 2003 (die year) are inscribed at the lower left field. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 EURO M 2003 |
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This piece belongs to a broader Spanish commemorative program celebrating figures of the Generation of '27 and the wider Spanish cultural avant-garde. Dalí's 1929 painting El gran masturbador was itself a product of his early Surrealist period in Paris, heavily influenced by his relationship with Gala Éluard and the psychoanalytic frameworks he was absorbing at the time. The Spanish state issuing a coin bearing that title in 2004 is, quietly, a remarkable act — the work's subject matter caused considerable controversy even decades after its creation.