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80 000 Pesetas - Juan Carlos I Blind Man's Bluff
| Issuer | Royal Mint of Spain (Real Casa de la Moneda) |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Value | 80 000 Pesetas (80 000 ESP) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a detailed adaptation of Francisco de Goya's celebrated painting 'Blind Man's Bluff' (La Gallina Ciega), depicting a lively outdoor scene in which a blindfolded player attempts to tag other participants amid a group of elegantly dressed figures. The composition faithfully reproduces the playful, pastoral character of Goya's original work, engraved by Garcilaso Rollán Sánchez with fine pictorial detail. The legend CULTURA Y NATURALEZA arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination 80000 PTAS and the Madrid mint mark M appear in the lower field. |
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| Reverse lettering | CULTURA Y NATURALEZA M 80000 PTAS (Translation: Culture and Nature Madrid 80000 pesetas) |
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Issued as part of Spain's ongoing commemorative gold program, this piece belongs to a series the Real Casa de la Moneda produced throughout the 1990s targeting the collector market rather than circulation. Blind Man's Bluff — known in Spanish as La gallina ciega — was famously depicted by Goya in his 1789 cartoon for the Royal Tapestry Factory, and that association gives the subject genuine cultural weight beyond mere festivity.
The 80,000 pesetas denomination was effectively fictional at face value, existing purely as a legal-tender fiction for collector pieces priced well above any nominal worth.