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20 Pesetas Luis de Haro
| Issuer | Pheasant Island |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Weight | 18.83 g |
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| Obverse description | Bimetallic fantasy coin with a silver-toned inner disc and gilt outer ring. The inner field features a three-quarter draped bust of Luis de Haro, Spanish statesman and chief minister to Philip IV, facing slightly left, with long hair and period costume, accompanied by a quill pen and a rolled document in the upper right field, referencing the Treaty of the Pyrenees. The date '07.11. / 1659' appears in the field to the right of the bust. The surrounding legend on the gilt ring reads 'LUIS DE HARO' at the top and '∙ TRATADO DE LOS PIRINEOS ∙' at the bottom, rendered in a Gothic-style script. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Pheasant Island — the half-hectare river island in the Bidasoa jointly administered by France and Spain in alternating six-month periods — is almost certainly the world's smallest condominium territory and one of the strangest jurisdictions in Europe. The arrangement dates to the 1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees, negotiated largely by Luis de Haro on the Spanish side. That this numismatic curiosity invokes his name is fitting, since the island itself exists as a direct consequence of his diplomacy.