Catalog
1500 Diners - Joan Martí i Alanis Episcopal Co-Prince, Latin
| Issuer | Andorra |
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| Year | 1980 |
| Type | Collector coin |
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| Obverse description | Truncated bust of Archbishop Joan Martí i Alanis facing left, depicted wearing clerical vestments and a zucchetto. The effigy is rendered in high relief with fine portrait detail. A circular Latin legend surrounds the bust, reading from the lower left and continuing around the upper field. A small cross or mint mark appears in the lower right field near the truncation. |
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| Obverse lettering | JOHANNES · D. M. EPS. VRGELL. ET · PRINC. VALL. ANDORRAE LT (Translation: Joan D.M. Bishop of Urgell and Prince of the Andorra Valleys) |
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Andorra's coinage history is peculiar: the principality issued no official circulating currency of its own for most of its existence, relying on French and Spanish coins by convention. The 1980 silver series, of which this is part, represented the first internationally recognized numismatic issues under the co-princeship — one seat held by the Bishop of Urgell, here Joan Martí i Alanis, who served in that role from 1971 to 2003. The Latin inscription acknowledges his ecclesiastical rather than civil authority.
KM#7 is among the earliest Andorran issues catalogued by Krause.