1 Sobirana Saint Ermengol

Andorra had no official coinage of its own until 1976, when the General Council authorized the first national issues — largely as collector pieces, since French francs and Spanish pesetas handled everyday transactions. The Sobirana series was conceived partly to assert a distinct national identity at a moment when Andorra was quietly modernizing its medieval co-principality structure ahead of formal constitutional reform. Saint Ermengol, the 11th-century Bishop of Urgell credited with building bridges across the Valira river, was a natural choice for a fledgling monetary program that needed locally resonant iconography.

Fr#1 — the first Frey-listed Andorran gold coin.