REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA
FRANCISCO de MIRANDA COMMEMORATIVE
GOLD 200 BOLIVARES COIN: CENTRAL BANK OF VENEZUELA ONE YEAR OF ISSUE
CERTIFIED BY NGC PROOF 69 ULTRA CAMEO
OBV: WITHIN CIRCLE PORTRAIT BUST OF FRANCISCO de MIRANDA 3/4 LEFT WITH BICENTENNIAL PRIVY MARK LEFT.
REV: WITHIN CIRCLE FLAG OF VENEZUELA FLYING IN BREEZE.
KM # Y98
FRANCISCO DE MIRANDA "THE FIRST UNIVERSAL VENEZUELAN" (1715-1816) WAS A VENEZUELAN REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY AND POLITICAL LEADER AGAINST SPANISH COLONIAL DOMINATION WHO LIBERATED A LARGE PART OF SOUTH AMERICA AND IS SEEN AS A PRECURSOR TO SIMÓN BOLÍVAR. MIRANDA WAS AN IDEALIST AND SERVED IN THE SPANISH ARMY FIGHTING THE BRITISH DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, PARTICIPATED IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, AND WAS AN ICON OF THE SPANISH AMERICAN WARS OF INDEPENDENCE. HE LANDED IN HIS FIRST ATTEMPT TO LIBERATE VENEZUELA AT THE PORT OF LA VELA DE CORO (WHICH IS REFERRED TO IN THE LEGEND ON THE OBVERSE OF THIS COIN) IN 1806, CAPTURING THE FORT THERE. BY 1810, THE FIRST REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA WAS FORMED.
CONTAINS 31.1 GRAMS OF .999 FINE GOLD (1.0 OZ AGW)
32 MM IN DIAMETER
ONLY 1,500 MINTED!
