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5 Diners - Joan Martí i Alanis Episcopal Co-Prince
| Issuer | Andorra |
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| Year | 1986 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing draped bust of Joan Martí i Alanis, Episcopal Co-Prince of Andorra, depicted in clerical vestments including a clerical collar, rendered in moderate relief against a plain field. The circumferential legend reads JOAN D.M. BISBE D'URGELL I PRINCEP D'ANDORRA, arranged around the full periphery of the coin, with a small cross serving as a divider at the base of the inscription. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Andorra's coinage authority didn't produce coins for general circulation until 1982 — remarkably late for a European state. The Episcopal Co-Prince series acknowledges one of the more unusual constitutional arrangements in modern Europe: the Bishop of Urgell holds joint sovereignty over Andorra alongside the French head of state, a feudal arrangement dating to the 1278 Paréage treaty that successive republics, empires, and democracies in France simply never bothered to dissolve. Joan Martí i Alanis held the bishopric from 1971 to 2003, making him one of the longer-serving co-princes in modern memory.