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50 Pesetas - Juan Carlos I
| Issuer | Real Casa de la Moneda (Royal Mint of Spain) |
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| Year | 1975-1980 |
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| In circulation to | 1 January 1997 |
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| Reverse description | The personal coat of arms of King Juan Carlos I is centrally displayed, flanked on either side by the denomination numeral 50, with the two-digit year of actual minting appearing within the points of two five-pointed stars positioned to the left and right of the shield. The legend PTAS (abbreviation for Pesetas) appears in the lower field completing the denomination. The heraldic shield incorporates the quartered arms of Castile, León, Aragón, and Navarre, with the Granada escutcheon at base and the Bourbon fleur-de-lis inescutcheon, surmounted by the royal crown. The overall design was engraved by Francisco Martínez Tornero, and a toothed border frames the entire composition. |
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| Mint | Royal Mint of Spain (Real Casa de la Moneda), Madrid, Spain (1591-date) |
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Spain's transition from Francoism produced an awkward numismatic situation: coins bearing Juan Carlos I's effigy entered circulation while Franco was still alive, struck in anticipation of a succession that had been legally arranged since 1969 when Franco designated Juan Carlos as his heir. The 1975-dated pieces technically precede Franco's death in November of that year, meaning the first issues of this type circulated under two heads of state simultaneously.
The series spans the years of the Transition — the *Transición* — and the drafting of the 1978 constitution that dismantled forty years of authoritarian structure.