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50 Euros Domenicos Theotocopoulos 'El Greco'
| Issuer | Banco de España |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Value | 50 Euros |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a detailed high-relief depiction drawn from El Greco's celebrated painting 'The Burial of the Count of Orgaz', showing noble and ecclesiastical figures in ornate vestments attending the burial scene, rendered in the painter's distinctive elongated Mannerist idiom. The denomination 50 EURO is prominently inscribed in the upper central field, with the curved legend PINTORES ESPAÑOLES arching above in cursive script. The crowned M mintmark of the Real Casa de la Moneda, Madrid, appears to the lower left of the denomination. |
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El Greco spent the first decade of his career in Venice and Rome before arriving in Toledo around 1577, where he would remain until his death in 1614. He came to Spain originally hoping for a commission from Philip II at El Escorial — he didn't get it. Philip found his work unsatisfactory, and the rejection effectively locked El Greco into Toledo's ecclesiastical patronage network for the rest of his life.
This coin was issued as part of Spain's long-running large-format silver commemorative program, which by 2011 had expanded to include figures the earlier peseta series never reached.