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5 Euros Royal Site of San Lorenzo de El Escorial
| Issuer | Royal Mint of Spain (Real Casa de la Moneda) |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Composition | Silver (.925) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features a large, finely detailed Spanish royal crown rendered in high relief at the center of the field, its arches adorned with floral motifs and surmounted by a cross. The legend 'ESPAÑA 2013' curves along the upper periphery in bold Latin capitals, while 'PATRIMONIO NACIONAL' arcs along the lower periphery. The Madrid mint mark, a crowned 'M', appears beneath the crown in the lower field. The entire design is framed by an inner border of raised beads. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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El Escorial was built between 1563 and 1584 under Philip II, partly as a mausoleum for his father Charles V and partly as a rebuke to Protestant austerity — a Catholic monument of almost pathological scale. Spain's commemorative five-euro silver program, launched in the early 2000s, has consistently used UNESCO World Heritage Sites as its subject pool, and El Escorial was designated in 1984. The .925 fineness places this squarely in the collector-issue category rather than anything intended for circulation.