The façade of the Santiago Compostela Cathedral is depicted on the obverse. The reverse is common to all the Euro Zone countries.

The bust of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra is reproduced on the obverse. The reverse is common to all the Euro Zone countries.

The bust of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra is reproduced on the obverse. The reverse is common to all the Euro Zone countries.

The effigy of H. M. the Spanish King is depicted on the obverse. The reverse is common to all the Euro Zone countries.

This sterling silver medal is a tribute to Madrid, a single-province autonomous community with Madrid as its capital.

In the 16th century king Philip II set the capital of his monarchy in the town of Madrid, and it has been so ever since, with a brief interval of time between 1601 and 1605 when Philip III transferred the capital to Valladolid. Also since that time the country's government has had its headquarters in Madrid, except during the Civil War when it was relocated first to Valencia and later to Barcelona.

With the Constitution of 1978 and the "Statute of Autonomy", the province of Madrid was officially established as a single-province autonomous community by reason of its economy and demographics and for being the province that accommodated Spain's capital.

The Community of Madrid is home to three Heritage of Mankind sites: San Lorenzo de El Escorial, the University of Alcalá de Henares and the historical complex, and the Cultural Landscape of Aranjuez.

The obverse depicts the coat-of-arms pertaining to the Madrid autonomous community.

The reverse portrays the crowned letter "M", the mintmark of the Spanish Royal Mint.

This sterling silver medal is dedicated to Melilla, one of Spain's north African autonomous cities, located on the south-eastern coastline of the Cap de Trois Fourches headland, by the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and across from the southern coast of the Iberian Peninsula.

In ancient times Melilla was a Phoenician trading settlement known as Rusaddir and a strategic port in the wars between Carthaginians and Romans. The Romans granted the enclave the status of a colony and included it in the Iberian territory.

During the expansion of the Moors into Spain Abderrahman III incorporated Melilla into the Caliphate of Córdoba at the end of the 9th c. In the 13th c. it passed to the Marinids in Fes. The battles between Fes and Tlemcen (in Algeria) wrought havoc on Melilla. On September 17, 1497, it was occupied by Spanish troops. From the 16th to the 19th centuries Melilla was the site of battles with its neighboring territories and an important center for cultural and commercial interchange. In 1859 the Moroccan king recognized the sovereignty of Melilla over its adjoining territory.

The obverse shows the coat-of-arms of the Melilla autonomous community.

The reverse portrays the crowned letter "M", the mintmark of the Spanish Royal Mint.