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300 Euros Spain Basketball world champions
| Issuer | Banco de España |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#1121 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The central gold-toned middle ring features a relief portrait of a basketball player in action, shown from the waist up, arms raised overhead preparing to shoot or receive a basketball, wearing a jersey inscribed 'España'. A basketball occupies the silver core at the upper centre, rendered in fine detail. The Madrid Mint mark ('M' crowned) appears to the upper left within the gold ring. The legend 'CAMPEONES DEL MUNDO' arcs across the upper silver outer ring in incuse lettering, with 'JAPÓN 2006' inscribed along the lower arc. A beaded border frames the inner edge of the dodecagonal outer ring. |
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Spain's national basketball team won the 2006 FIBA World Championship in Japan, defeating Greece in the final — a result that shocked a European basketball establishment accustomed to American dominance. The Spanish federation lobbied for a commemorative issue almost immediately, and the Casa de la Moneda produced this trimetallic piece within months of the victory.
The trimetallic construction — silver core, gold middle ring, silver outer ring — was a technically demanding format that the Madrid mint had been refining since the late 1990s. Mintages on these high-denomination Spanish commemoratives were tightly controlled, rarely exceeding a few thousand pieces.