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20 Euro Picasso
| Issuer | Spain |
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| Year | 1997 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field features a depiction of a Picasso painting rendered within an ornate decorative rectangular frame with scrollwork borders. The stylized figural composition within the frame shows two intertwined human figures rendered in a Cubist-influenced style. Thirteen five-pointed stars arc across the upper field outside the frame, referencing the European Union motif. The legend ESPANA curves along the left periphery and 20 EURO along the right, both reading outward from the central frame, with the date 1997 inscribed in the lower exergue. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Spain's 1997 commemorative program for the centenary of Picasso's birth produced several issues across different metals and face values, with this copper-nickel piece occupying the lower tier of that release. Picasso was born in Málaga in 1881, spent most of his adult life in France, and died a French resident in 1973 — meaning Spain commemorated an artist who had lived in self-imposed exile from Franco's regime for decades and explicitly refused to return while the dictatorship stood.
The X# prefix in the Krause catalog designates it as a non-circulating fantasy or medallic issue rather than a standard legal tender coin.