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50 Pesetas Juan de Herrera
| Issuer | Spain |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Value | 50 Pesetas (50 ESP) |
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| Reverse description | Detailed frontal view of the Real Monasterio de El Escorial, the monumental royal monastery and palace complex designed by Juan de Herrera and completed in 1584, depicted with fine architectural precision across the lower two-thirds of the field. The large denomination numeral 50 appears prominently at the top, followed by the currency abbreviation PTAS in the centre. The crowned mint mark of the Real Casa de la Moneda, Madrid, is positioned to the right of the denomination. The scalloped coin shape frames the architectural composition effectively. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 PTAS M |
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Juan de Herrera was Philip II's chief architect, responsible for the austere granite immensity of El Escorial — a building so influential it gave its name to an entire architectural style, the Herreran or "desornamentado." This coin belongs to Spain's "Grandes de España" series, which ran through the 1990s pairing the newly bimetallic-era coinage with rotating commemorative subjects drawn from Spanish cultural history. Herrera died in 1597, making the 1997 issue a quiet four-century mark.