Spain Juan Carlos I 100 Pesetas

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100 Pesetas 1994, KM# 935, Spain, Juan Carlos I, Prado Museum

Obverse. Photo © NumisCorner.com

Description

The Prado Museum is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid. It is widely considered to have one of the world's finest collections of European art, dating from the 12th century to the early 20th century, based on the former Spanish Royal Collection, and the single best collection of Spanish art. Founded as a museum of paintings and sculpture in 1819, it also contains important collections of other types of works. El Prado is one of the most visited sites in the world, and it is considered one of the greatest art museums in the world. The numerous works by Francisco Goya, the single most extensively represented artist, as well as by Hieronymus Bosch, El Greco, Peter Paul Rubens, Titian, and Diego Velázquez, are some of the highlights of the collection. The collection currently comprises around 8,200 drawings, 7,600 paintings, 4,800 prints, and 1,000 sculptures, in addition to a large number of other works of art and historic documents.

The best-known work on display at the museum is Las Meninas by Velázquez. Velázquez and his keen eye and sensibility were also responsible for bringing much of the museum's fine collection of Italian masters to Spain, now the largest outside Italy.

Obverse	Person (king, queen, tsar etc.) Juan Carlos I Portrait in left profile of Juan Carlos I. Inscription "Juan Carlos I King of Spain" around. Date below. Juan Carlos I (born 5 January 1938) reigned as King of Spain from 1975 to 2014, when he abdicated in favour of his son, Felipe VI. In 1969, Francisco Franco, the Spanish dictator chose Juan Carlos, grandson of King Alfonso XIII, to be the next head of state, bypassing his father Juan de Borbón and expecting him to continue Franco's own authoritarian regime. Juan Carlos became King on 22 November 1975, two days after Franco's death, the first reigning monarch since 1931. Engraver: Manuel Martinez JUAN CARLOS I REY DE ESPAÑA • 1994 •
Reverse	Art (sculpture, painting etc.) Statue, Diego Velázquez Construction (building, bridge etc.) Museum Depicts the main promenade entrances to the Museo del Prado dominated by this bronze statue of Diego Velázquez. Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599–1660) was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV, and one of the most important painters of the Spanish Golden Age. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary Baroque period. In addition to numerous renditions of scenes of historical and cultural significance, he painted scores of portraits of the Spanish royal family, other notable European figures, and commoners, culminating in the production of his masterpiece Las Meninas (1656). Engraver: Begoña Castellanos 100 PTAS M
Edge	Decorated 22 fleurs-de-lis in two varieties: fleurs-de-lis up and down

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1994 Spain

Prado Museum

Juan Carlos I

KM# 935 Schön# 185

Characteristics

Type	Commemorative Issue (Circulating)
Material	Aluminium Bronze
Weight	9.3 g
Diameter	24.5 mm
Thickness	2.9 mm
Shape	round
Alignment	Coin
Mint	Royal Spanish Mint (FNMT-RCM)