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12 Euros - Juan Carlos I Spanish Presidency of the European Union
| Issuer | Royal Mint of Spain (Real Casa de la Moneda) |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Currency | Euro (2002-date) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Spain held the rotating EU Council presidency in the first half of 2010 — a tenure that proved diplomatically turbulent, coinciding with the early tremors of the eurozone sovereign debt crisis that would soon engulf Spain itself. The irony of issuing a commemorative celebrating European institutional leadership while Madrid was quietly negotiating emergency fiscal measures was not lost on observers at the time.
The 12-euro denomination is a Spanish invention with no eurozone parallel, introduced in 2002 specifically to mark EU-related occasions at a face value evoking the twelve member states of the original European Communities.