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50 Diners - Joan Martí i Alanis Pyrenean Chamois
| Issuer | Andorra |
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| Year | 1991 |
| Type | Collector coin |
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| Obverse description | The crowned coat of arms of Andorra is displayed to the left of the field, surmounted by a royal crown and featuring the quartered shield with the arms of the Bishop of Urgell and the four bars of Catalonia. To the right, a five-line inscription identifies the co-prince in Catalan. The denomination '50 D.' appears prominently in the lower centre of the field, with the date '1991' inscribed directly below. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Andorra's coinage program through the late 1980s and early 1990s was largely a fiscal exercise — the principality had no central bank and no domestic monetary tradition, issuing collector pieces primarily to generate revenue through numismatic sales abroad. This particular issue bears the countersignature of Joan Martí i Alanis, Bishop of Urgell, whose role as co-prince gave the Church of Rome a direct hand in authorizing Andorran coinage well into the modern era — an arrangement unchanged since the Paréage of 1278.
The Pyrenean chamois population in Andorra was already under conservation pressure by 1991, hunted to critically low numbers before protected zone legislation took hold in the late twentieth century.