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2000 Pesetas Luis I
| Issuer | Royal Mint of Spain (Real Casa de la Moneda) |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#1025 |
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| Reverse description | The crowned coat of arms of Spain displayed centrally within the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece, rendered in fine detail. The quartered shield bears the traditional emblems of Castile, León, Aragon, and Navarre with the Granada pomegranate in base. The surrounding legend 'III CENTENARIO DE LA CASA DE BORBÓN' arcs along the upper periphery, while '·2000 PTAS·' appears along the lower periphery, all within a beaded border. |
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| Reverse lettering | III CENTENARIO DE LA CASA DE BORBON ·2000 PTAS· (Translation: 3rd Centennial of House of Bourbon 2000 Pesetas) |
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This piece belongs to Spain's long-running commemorative series revisiting monarchs who never appeared on circulating coinage during their own reigns. Luis I ruled for just seven months in 1724 before dying of smallpox at eighteen, making him one of the shortest-reigning Bourbon monarchs in Spanish history. His father Philip V, who had abdicated in his favor, simply resumed the throne afterward — an unusual dynastic reversal with no real parallel in the dynasty's Spanish tenure.