Commemorative Coins of Spain - 50 Euro Coins

50 Euro Coins

• 2002 - International Year Antoni Gaudí i Cornet. The obverse of this coin reproduces the face of Gaudi and his architectural details. On the reverse, the Expiatory Temple of the Holy Family.
• 2003 - First Anniversary of the Euro. The Constitutional coat-of-arms has been reproduced on the reverse of this coin, surrounded by a variety of architectonic styles that are also shown on the Euro banknotes.
• 2004 - 5th Centenary of Isabella I of Castile. The obverse portrays the bust of Queen Isabella I of Castile in profile and a view of the castle of La Mota. The reverse shows a fragment of the painting The surrender of Granada by Francisco Pradilla Ortiz that hangs in the Palacio del Senado.
• 2004 - Centenary of the birth of Salvador Dalí. This coin features on its obverse a version of the painting One second before awakening (1944), and on its reverse an interpretation of the work Rhinocerotic figure from Phidias’s Ilisos (1954).