Spain 2001 25 pesetas

from the Mountain Groan Collection

This coin, issued during the reign of Juan Carlos, is one of a series of circulating commemoratives starting in 1990 and ending in 2002 with the introduction of the euro. This type honors the Order of the Golden Fleece, an order of chivalry founded by the Burgundian dukes in the fifteenth century, taken over by the Hapsburgs in the sixteenth century and maintained to the present day by the Bourbons. The coin is now obsolete.

Recorded mintage: 91,200,000.

Specification: 4.25 g, aluminum bronze, 19.5 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM 1013.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 2001-Date, 13th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2018.
• Cayón, Adolfo, Clemente Cayón and Juan Cayón, Las Monedas Españolas, del Tremis al Euro: del 411 a Nuestros Dias, 2 volumes, Madrid: Cayón-Jano S.L., 2005.

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• 1997 25 pesetas, Melilla
• 2001 euro
• 2001 80,000 pesetas, Segovia mint rehabilitation
• Coins and currency dated 2001
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