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25 Pesetas Melilla
| Issuer | Royal Mint of Spain (Real Casa de la Moneda) |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Engraver(s) | Luis Antonio Garcia Ruiz |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 PTAS M MELILLA 1497-1997 |
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| Mintage | 1997 M - - 461,688,000 |
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Melilla, a Spanish enclave on the northern coast of Morocco, has held a peculiar administrative status since the 15th century — besieged periodically, claimed repeatedly by Morocco, and yet never relinquished. This coin was part of a 1997 series issuing dedicated 25-peseta pieces to Spain's autonomous cities and regions, a politically charged project during a decade when regional identity carried real constitutional weight in Madrid.
Spain abandoned the peseta for the euro just five years later, making the entire regional 25-peseta run one of the shortest-lived commemorative local currency programs in modern European history.