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2 Euros Don Quixote
| Issuer | Real Casa de la Moneda (Royal Mint of Spain) |
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| Year | 2005 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | The central field features a depiction of Don Quixote de la Mancha, the literary hero of Miguel de Cervantes, shown in profile facing right, wearing a helmet and holding a lance upright, with two windmills rendered in the background. The design commemorates the 400th anniversary of the publication of Don Quixote. The country name legend ESPAÑA and the mint mark M flank the date 2005, inscribed in the lower portion of the inner disc. Twelve stars of the European Union encircle the outer ring, with four stars incuse-struck into the ring surface at the junctions with the inner disc. |
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| Mintage | 2005 M - - 7,892,077 2005 M - BU set - 104,923 2005 M - Proof - 3,000 |
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Issued to mark the 400th anniversary of the publication of Cervantes' El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha, this coin was struck the same year Spain hosted a UNESCO World Book Day commemoration centered on the novel. The first part of Don Quixote was published in Madrid in 1605 by Francisco de Robles; the second part followed in 1615, though Cervantes died the following year before seeing its full reception.
Spain issued the coin under the EU's commemorative 2-euro program, which had only been formally regularized in 2004, making this among the earlier coordinated commemorative releases in the eurozone.