Spanish 500 peseta banknote question [solved]

Hi, I was wondering how a Spanish banknote happens to show the French village of Vernet les Bains? 🤔

Thanks for clarifying. 🙂

I don't know but it may have been an oversight?  Those are great side-by-side shots.  

It wouldn't be the first time (there are other examples).  For example, on the 1900 Dominion of Canada $4 the note depicts the US side of the locks.

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cent

Hi, I was wondering how a Spanish banknote happens to show the French village of Vernet les Bains? 🤔

Thanks for clarifying. 🙂

Was there ever a dispute of this territory by the Spanish in the past?

hello I am French, this is explained in my link,

“The other surprising thing is that in 1970, the Spanish government used the view of Vernet Les Bains to illustrate its 500 Pesetas note, this to honor a famous Catalan poet Antonio VERDAGUER.”

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cent

Hi, I was wondering how a Spanish banknote happens to show the French village of Vernet les Bains? 🤔

Thanks for clarifying. 🙂

Was there ever a dispute of this territory by the Spanish in the past?

My initial thought. 🙂

cronos22

hello I am French, this is explained in my link,

 

“The other surprising thing is that in 1970, the Spanish government used the view of Vernet Les Bains to illustrate its 500 Pesetas note, this to honor a famous Catalan poet Antonio VERDAGUER.”

Thank you for the enlightenment. 👍😊

I think I have the explanation for this curious fact. 

Jacinto Verdaguer (not Antonio Verdaguer as written above) was a very transversal symbol within Catalanism, and the Francoist elites thought that if they appropriated him they could bring a part of Catalans closer to their cause. 

The French village of Vernet Les Bains belongs to Northern Catalonia, North Catalonia, French Catalonia or Roussillon and it refers to the Catalan-speaking and Catalan-culture territory ceded to France by Spain through the signing of the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659 in exchange of France's effective renunciation on the formal protection that it had given to the recently founded Catalan Republic. The area corresponds roughly to the modern French département of the Pyrénées-Orientales which were historically part of Catalonia since the old County of Barcelona, ​​and lasted during the times of the Crown of Aragon and the Principality of Catalonia until they were given to France by Spain.

The reverse of the banknote is entirely occupied by a wide view of the snow-covered Canigó mountain, taken from the village of Vernet Les Bains, in Conflent (France). The Canigó appears on the back of the banknote because this magnificent peak of the Pyrenees is the protagonist of one of the epic poems written by Verdaguer, which bears his name, Canigó (1886). Thanks to this work, one of the most emblematic compositions of the “Renaixença” movement, this mountain has become a symbol of Catalanness.

Do you think it would be interesting to write this explanation of the bill in the Comments section? I'm Spanish banknote referee, so I can do it if you consider ;)

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Something like this belongs in the comment section, maybe not in the length of an essay but a few sentences.

Idolenz

Something like this belongs in the comment section, maybe not in the length of an essay but a few sentences.

Done!!!