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Medal - Tajo river

Features

Location Spain
Type Art medals
Year 1966
Composition Copper
Weight 401.5 g
Diameter 85 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled (high relief)
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
564312

Commemorative issue

Tajo

Series: Rivers of Spain

Obverse

Stylized lying down man with sword in hand and beard like a waterfall of water flowing to the ground.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
TAJO
Somoza

Designer: Fernando Somoza

Reverse

Stylized river flowing between bridges with village on the left and stylized eagle on the right.

Designer: Fernando Somoza

Edge

Plain

Mint

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

Comments

The Tagus (Spanish: Tajo; Portuguese: Tejo) is the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula. The river rises in the Montes Universales between Cuenca and Teruel, in mid-eastern Spain, flows 1,007 km (626 mi), generally westward, and empties into the Atlantic Ocean at Lisbon.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (1966) 

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