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2 Euros Canary Islands
| Issuer | Spain |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Value | 2 Euros 2 EUR = USD 2.35 |
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| Obverse description | Central bimetallic disc features a forward-facing male portrait in low relief set against a plain field, surrounded by a ring of twelve stars on the outer bimetallic ring. The legend CANARY ISLANDS arcs across the upper portion of the outer ring, while the date 2004 appears in the lower field beneath the portrait. Small inscriptions including PROVE PROVA PROBE TEST ESSAI are present along the inner border, indicating the piece's status as a fantasy or pattern issue. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Issued as part of Spain's ongoing commemorative regional series, this coin marks the Canary Islands' status as one of Spain's autonomous communities — an archipelago whose political integration into the Spanish state carried particular complexity given its geographic position off the northwest African coast and its separate historical administrative treatment under Franco. The series itself was Spain's first systematic use of the €2 commemorative format, launched the same year.