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| Issuer | Govern d'Andorra (Government of Andorra) |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Weight | 20 g |
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| Obverse lettering | PRINCIPAT D'ANDORRA VIRTVS VNITA FORTIOR 5 D. 2013 (Translation: Principality of Andorra United virtue is stronger) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Andorra began issuing collector coinage under its own authority only after the 1993 constitution formally established it as a sovereign co-principality — prior to that, French francs and Spanish pesetas circulated by convention with no domestic coinage of any practical kind. This piece is part of a series tied to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, an odd pairing given that dressage is a summer discipline, though Andorra has historically grouped its Olympic-themed issues loosely across both games cycles.
KM#486 was struck at the Monnaie de Paris under contract — Andorra has no mint of its own.