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Charles IV Commemorative Issue
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red ink; at left, a vignette with names and portraits of Charles IV's descendants; at left-center, a large vertical foil security thread; at right, a full-length standing figure of King Charles IV. |
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| Protection description | Large foil security thread positioned at left-center of the obverse. |
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Spain issued this commemorative in 2003 marking the bicentenary of the death of Charles IV — or rather, of his abdication and exile, since he died in Naples in 1819 having spent his final years a guest of Napoleon and later the Bourbons of the Two Sicilies. The note exists as a collector piece rather than a circulating instrument, which makes the presence of a security thread an interesting choice — functional anti-counterfeiting infrastructure on something never intended for trade.