200 Euros - Juan Carlos I Manuel de Falla

Manuel de Falla died in Alta Gracia, Argentina in 1946, having spent his final years in self-imposed exile after refusing to lend cultural legitimacy to the Franco regime. The irony of a Francoist-era Spain later celebrating him on official coinage is not lost on musicologists. This 2014 issue appeared in the final months of Juan Carlos I's reign — he abdicated in June of that year in favor of Felipe VI, making it one of the last gold commemoratives bearing his effigy.