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Spain continues its annual tribute to the properties and places inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List with the issue of a commemorative 2-euro coin. Continuing with the theme initiated in 2010 for 2 euro commemorative coins to commemorate these properties and places, the FNMT-RCM issues the thirteenth coin in this series, dedicated on this occasion to the Garajonay National Park, a Spanish protected natural area that covers more than 10% of the surface of the island of La Gomera, in the autonomous community of the Canary Islands.
It was declared a National Park in 1981 and was subsequently listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986. Since 2012, the park has also been a Biosphere Reserve together with the whole island. It was declared a Biosphere Reserve because it is home to the best known example in the Old World of laurel forest, a humid forest of various evergreen species that covered practically all of Europe in the Tertiary period.
The obverse of the coin shows the Roque de Agando and a detail of the laurel forest. The common reverse of the coin shows the numeral representing its value, together with six vertical lines superimposed with 12 stars. On the right-hand side is a depiction of the European continent.
This blister, with a maximum mintage of 5,000 pieces, presents the coin in a protective capsule, but which, at the same time, allows both sides of the coin to be observed.
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