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500 Pesetas - Juan Carlos I Maya sculpture
| Issuer | Royal Mint of Spain (Real Casa de la Moneda) |
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| Year | 1989 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1868-2001) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | (M) Royal Mint of Spain (Real Casa de la Moneda), Madrid, Spain (1591-date) |
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This piece belongs to Spain's Ibero-American series, launched in 1987 as a collaborative numismatic program between Spain and its former colonial territories — an initiative timed deliberately to build momentum toward the 1992 quincentennial of Columbus's first voyage. The Maya subject reflects the series' broader mandate to rotate pre-Columbian, colonial, and post-independence themes across participating nations.
Spain's 1989 output for this series was struck in relatively modest quantities compared to the commemorative floods that followed in 1992.