25 Euro Barcelona-Mataró railway line

Features

Pretended issuer	Spain
Type	Fantasy coins
Year	1998
Value	25 Euros 25 EUR = USD 29
Currency	Euro (2002-date)
Composition	Silver (.925)
Weight	25 g
Diameter	38 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Coin alignment ↑↓
Number	N# 536286

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Commemorative issue

150th anniversary of the Barcelona-Mataró railway line

Obverse

Mountainous landscape, five bars and star with dots.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
CATALUNYA
25 EURO
1998

Reverse

Stylized train and head of the Spanish merchant mariner and main promoter of the Barcelona-Mataró Railway, Miquel Biada.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
BARCELONA MATARO
1848 1998
150 ANIV. DEL TREN
MIQUEL BIADA I BUNYOL
JIMENEZ

Translation: 150th anniversary of the train.

Engraver: Joaquin Jimenez

Edge

Reeded

Comments

Miguel Biada y Bunyol (Mataró, November 24, 1789 - Mataró, April 2, 1848) was a Spanish merchant mariner and the main promoter of the Barcelona-Mataró Railway (1848), the first railway in Catalonia and all of European Spain – in Cuba it had been inaugurated in 1837 – although since 1949 some consider it the first railway of the Iberian Peninsula.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
1998												Proof

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Actual silver weight: 0.743 oz

Current silver price: 73.42 USD/oz (see silver price

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