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| Issuer | Royal Mint of Spain (Real Casa de la Moneda) |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Currency | Euro (2002-date) |
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| Obverse description | Conjoined busts of King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia facing left in high relief, with the Queen's effigy slightly in front of the King's, both rendered in fine engraved detail. The field is plain, bordered by a continuous ring of raised beads along the inner rim. The legend FELIPE VI Y LETIZIA arcs across the upper field, while ESPAÑA and the date 2022, separated by a fleur-de-lis ornament, appear along the lower field. |
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| Obverse lettering | FELIPE VI Y LETIZIA ESPAÑA 2022 (Translation: Felipe VI and Letizia Spain 2022) |
| Reverse description | At center, a full-color depiction of the Nao Victoria, the carrack captained by Juan Sebastián Elcano that completed the first circumnavigation of the globe, rendered in polychrome against a background reproducing the world map of Italian cartographer Battista Agnese, drawn from the collections of the Biblioteca Nacional de España. The denomination 40 EURO and the mint mark M appear at lower right, while the commemorative legend arcs across the upper and lower fields. The overall composition blends colored and relief elements to evoke the historic 1519–1522 voyage. |
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