2 Euros Seat 600

Issued to mark the 65th anniversary of the SEAT 600, the car credited — perhaps more than any other single object — with motorizing postwar Spain. Franco's government partnered with Fiat in the mid-1950s to produce an affordable domestic vehicle; the result, launched in 1957, put a country still emerging from autarky behind the wheel for the first time. By the time production ended in 1973, over 793,000 had been built at SEAT's Barcelona plant.

The commemorative program was approved under Spain's ongoing €2 national series celebrating cultural and industrial heritage. Mintage was set at 8 million pieces.