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50 Diners Rossell's Manual Digest
| Issuer | Andorra |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Currency | Diner (1977-2014) |
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| Obverse description | The crowned coat of arms of the Principality of Andorra occupies the central field, flanked by the quartered escutcheon featuring the traditional heraldic elements of the co-princes. The arms are enclosed within a decorative semi-open circle. The peripheral legend reads PRINCIPAT D'ANDORRA and VIRTVS VNITA FORTIOR, with the denomination 50 D and CINQUANTA DINERS also inscribed around the design. |
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| Obverse lettering | PRINCIPAT D'ANDORRA VIRTVS VNITA FORTIOR 50 D CINQUANTA DINERS (Translation: Principality of Andorra United virtue is stronger Fifty Diners) |
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The Manual Digest of 1748, compiled by Antoni Fiter i Rossell, was the first systematic codification of Andorran customary law — a body of rules that had governed the co-principality informally for centuries under its unusual dual-suzerainty arrangement between the Bishop of Urgell and the French head of state. Rossell's work gave Andorra something approaching a constitutional foundation at a time when most small European territories were being absorbed or reorganized by larger powers.
This coin was issued the same year Andorra adopted its first formal constitution — 1993 — was still recent enough to make the legal heritage theme pointed rather than incidental.