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20 000 Pesetas - Juan Carlos I Lady of Elche
| Issuer | Royal Mint of Spain |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#958 |
| Obverse description | Unadorned right-facing effigy of King Juan Carlos I of Spain, rendered in high relief with finely detailed hair and facial features characteristic of the engraver Martinez Tornero's style. The portrait occupies the central field, with the legend JUAN CARLOS I REY DE ESPAÑA arcing along the upper periphery. The date 1995 appears in the lower field, flanked by two raised dots. The plain field surrounding the effigy contrasts with the deeply struck portrait, lending the design a clean, regal appearance consistent with Spanish Proof coinage of the period. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The Lady of Elche is a polychrome stone bust discovered in 1897 at L'Alcúdia near Elche, Valencia, and is one of the most debated artifacts in Iberian archaeology — scholars still disagree on whether she is a funerary urn, a votive offering, or a portrait of a priestess, and on whether she dates to the 4th or 5th century BC. France acquired the piece almost immediately after its discovery, and it sat in the Louvre until 1941, when Franco's government negotiated its repatriation as part of wartime diplomacy with Vichy France.
This issue belongs to a broader Spanish gold program of the 1990s spotlighting pre-Roman Iberian cultural artifacts.