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| Issuer | Banco de España |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1868-2001) |
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| Reverse description | Engraved vignette of the Casa-Museo de Rosalía de Castro in Padrón, La Coruña, rendered in fine intaglio line work. A facsimile autograph fragment from Rosalía de Castro's poem 'Follas Novas', written in the Galician language, is reproduced in script across the upper portion of the design. The denomination '500' appears at left and right within guilloche underprint panels. |
| Reverse lettering | 500 / 500 BANCO DE ESPAÑA QUINIENTAS pesetas "Non Follas novas, ramallo de toxos e silvas sôs, hirtas, com´as miñas penas, feras, com´á miña dor". (Translation: Bank of Spain Five hundred pesetas No, new leaves, bouquet of gorse and brambles you are, barren as my sorrows, fierce as my pain.) |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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