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25 ECU Lepanto Battle and Alcalá University
| Issuer | Spain |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Currency | ECU (1979-1999) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1994 M - Proof |
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The two subjects share more than a catalog grouping. Philip II funded the construction of Alcalá's Colegio Mayor de San Ildefonso and also assembled the Holy League fleet that met the Ottomans at Lepanto in 1571 — both expressions of the same Counter-Reformation ambition that defined his reign. Cervantes fought at Lepanto and lost the use of his left hand there, a detail he later described as the finest occasion any century had ever seen.
The 25 ECU denomination was issued under Spain's pre-euro commemorative program, which used the European Currency Unit as a prestige denomination never intended for circulation.