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50 Diners - Joan Martí i Alanis XXVI Summer Olympic Games
| Issuer | Andorra |
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| Year | 1995 |
| Type | Collector coin |
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| Obverse description | The quartered coat of arms of Andorra occupies the central field, surmounted by an episcopal crown. The shield displays, in the first quarter, the mitre and crozier of the Bishop of Urgell on a horizontally striped background; in the second and third quarters, the four vertical bars of the County of Foix and the County of Catalonia respectively; and in the fourth quarter, two bulls passant on a striped field. The circumferential legend, separated from the inner field by a border of arrow-like serrations, reads JOAN D.M. BISBE D'URGELL I PRINCEP D'ANDORRA, with the date 1995 positioned in the lower field beneath the shield. |
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| Obverse lettering | JOAN D.M.BISBE D`URGELL I PRINCEP D`ANDORRA 1995 (Translation: Joan D.M. Bishop of Urgell and Prince of Andorra) |
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Andorra has no mint of its own; this piece was almost certainly struck by the Casa de la Moneda in Madrid or a contracted European facility, as was standard practice for Andorran commemorative issues throughout the 1990s. The Atlanta Games series gave the co-principality — a sovereign state without Olympic committee recognition until 1971 — a recurring vehicle for high-weight silver issues aimed squarely at the collector market rather than circulation.
Joan Martí i Alanis served as Episcopal Co-Prince from 1971 to 2003, the longest such tenure in modern Andorran history.