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5 ECU Ildefons Cerdá
| Issuer | Spain |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Currency | ECU (1979-1999) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ildefons Cerdà's inclusion in a Spanish ECU issue is quietly ironic: the man who designed Barcelona's Eixample expansion grid in 1859 was a Catalan urban planner whose work was initially rejected by local authorities and had to be imposed by the Madrid central government — against the wishes of the very city it reshaped. Spain minting his portrait on a European currency piece in the 1990s represents a striking posthumous rehabilitation by the same centralist state that had to override Barcelona to honor his plan in the first place.