50 Diners - Joan Martí i Alanis Brown Bear

Andorra's authority to issue coinage is anomalous — the co-principality has two heads of state simultaneously (the Bishop of Urgell and the President of France), and for most of its history issued no currency of its own, relying on French and Spanish coins in circulation. The gold commemorative program launched in the late 1980s was largely a revenue exercise aimed at collectors, and Joan Martí i Alanis, Bishop of Urgell from 1971 to 2003, lent his name to the series as one of the two sitting co-princes.

The Cantabrian brown bear population, which historically ranged across the Pyrenees including Andorran territory, was functionally extinct in the region by the 1990s.