10 Pesetas Seneca

Features

Issuer	Spain
King	Juan Carlos I (1975-2014)
Type	Circulating commemorative coins
Year	1997
Value	10 Pesetas (10 ESP)
Currency	Peseta (1868-2001)
Composition	Copper-nickel (75% copper, 25% nickel)
Weight	4 g
Diameter	18.5 mm
Thickness	1.7 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Coin alignment ↑↓
Demonetized	28 February 2002
Number	N# 6791
References	KM# 982 Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes). , Schön# 245 Battenberg Gietl Verlag (publisher). Weltmünzkatalog. Battenberg Gietl Verlag, Regenstauf, Bavaria, Germany (4 volumes). , Aureo# 69 Áureo & Calicó (publisher); 2019. Numismática Española: Catálogo de todas las monedas emitidas desde los Reyes Católicos hasta Felipe VI, 1474 a 2020 = Spanish Numismatics. Áureo & Calicó, Barcelona, Spain.

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Commemorative issue

2000th anniversary of the birth of Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Obverse

Head of the philosopher Lucio Anneo Seneca front-facing.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
ESPAÑA
M
SENECA

Translation: Spain

Engraver: Alfonso Morales Muñoz

Reverse

Almodóvar Gate of the Walls of the city of Córdoba with bronze sculpture of Lucio Anneo Seneca to the left.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
10 PTAS
1997

Unabridged legend: 10 Pesetas

Engraver: Alfonso Morales Muñoz

Edge

Reeded

Mint

(M)	Royal Mint of Madrid (Real Casa de la Moneda de Madrid), Spain (1591-date)

Comments

Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC – AD 65), usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, dramatist, and in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature. Seneca was born in Colonia Patricia Corduba in Hispania, and was trained in rhetoric and philosophy in Rome.

Present in sets

1997 Uncirculated

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Date			Mintage		VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
1997 M			6 800 000			$ 0.71	$ 0.71	$ 0.81	$ 1.20	$ 1.20

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