Catalog
25 Diners Napoleon I, gold
| Issuer | Andorra |
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| Year | 1964 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | The laureate bust of Napoleon I is portrayed in left-facing profile, rendered in a neoclassical style with finely detailed hair beneath a laurel wreath. The truncation of the bust is visible at the lower right, accompanied by the engraver's initials fm. A circular legend in Latin and Catalan surrounds the effigy along the upper and lateral periphery, while a secondary inscription arcs across the lower field within a beaded inner border, commemorating the nomination of the Veguer on 27 March 1806. The entire design is enclosed by a beaded border. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Andorra had no formal coinage of its own for most of its history, operating instead on a patchwork of French and Spanish currencies in daily commerce. This 1964 issue is among the earliest gold pieces struck under Andorran authority, produced largely for the collector market rather than circulation. The Napoleon I theme reflects the co-princeship structure under which Andorra operates — the French head of state holds one of the two co-prince titles, a line of succession that runs unbroken in theory from the bishops of Urgell and the counts of Foix through the French crown.
The X# prefix in the Krause reference places this outside the standard circulation series entirely.