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25 Euro Barcelona-Mataró railway line
| Issuer | Spain |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Composition | Silver (.925) |
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| Obverse lettering | CATALUNYA 25 EURO 1998 |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents a stylized depiction of an early steam locomotive in motion, rendered in low relief to evoke the historic Barcelona-Mataró railway. To the right, a portrait bust of Miquel Biada i Bunyol, the Spanish merchant mariner and principal promoter of the first railway line in Catalonia, is shown in profile. The surrounding legend commemorates the 150th anniversary of the railway, with inscriptions identifying both the route and the honoree distributed across the field. |
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The Barcelona–Mataró line, inaugurated on October 28, 1848, was the first railway to operate on the Iberian Peninsula — predating any line in Portugal and running the 29 kilometers between the two cities in under an hour, a journey that had previously taken the better part of a day by road. Its 150th anniversary prompted this issue.