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50 Euro Cents 1st type, 2nd map
| Issuer | Royal Mint of Spain (Real Casa de la Moneda) |
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| Year | 2007-2009 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, a common design shared across the eurozone, displays the face value '50 EURO CENT' in bold numerals and lettering at the left, beside a relief map of the European continent depicted without internal national borders, emphasising continental unity. The designer's initials 'LL' for Luc Luycx appear discreetly in the lower field of the map design. The struck surface is finished in Nordic gold alloy, giving the coin its characteristic golden appearance. |
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| Mint | M Royal Mint of Spain (Real Casa de la Moneda), Madrid, Spain (1591-date) |
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Spain's euro coinage shifted to the "2nd map" reverse — showing the full European continent including nations outside the eurozone — in 2007, following a 2005 EU directive requiring all member states to update the common side of their circulating euro coins. The change was purely administrative, prompted by the 2004 EU enlargement, which had made the original map's exclusion of ten new member states politically awkward.
Mintages during this window were modest, as Spanish vending and retail infrastructure had already absorbed sufficient 50-cent pieces from the high-volume early-2000s runs.