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15 Diners Adoration of the Christ Child
| Issuer | Andorra |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Shape | Rectangular (irregular, with oval top) |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the Coat of Arms of Andorra rendered atop a column capital adorned with elaborate floral ornaments. Painter's palettes appear as decorative elements flanking the shield on either side, referencing the artistic theme of the series. The surrounding legend is inscribed in Latin along the border, incorporating the denomination and date. The overall design reflects the Principality's heraldic tradition within a decorative architectural framework. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a full-color pad-printed reproduction of Antonio da Correggio's painting 'Adoration of the Christ Child,' faithfully rendered within the coin's irregular rectangular field with an oval top. The composition is flanked on either side by female caryatid columns rendered in relief, providing an architectural frame that complements the Renaissance subject matter. The legend above and below identifies the artistic theme and the painter in Latin characters. The combination of relief sculpting and polychrome pad printing creates a striking pictorial effect characteristic of this commemorative series. |
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Andorra's silver issues of this period were produced under a licensing arrangement that allowed the co-principality — which has no mint of its own — to commission foreign facilities for collector coinage. The pad printing technique applied here, a process borrowed from industrial manufacturing, deposits ink directly onto the coin surface in precise multicolor layers without the raised relief of traditional enameling.
KM#549 belongs to a recurring Andorran series drawing on Western European devotional art. Pad-printed coins from this era have shown variable long-term ink adhesion depending on storage conditions — a practical concern for registry submissions.