1000 Pesetas - Juan Carlos I Magellan and Elcano

Reverse

World map indicating the route of the circumnavigation of the trip around the world.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
: QVINTO : CENTENARIO :
M : 1000 : PTAS : 500

Unabridged legend: 1000 Pesetas

Translation: Fifth Centennary

Edge

Segmented reeding (BU)
Reeded (Proof)

Comment

Ferdinand Magellan (c. 1480 – 27 April 1521) was a Portuguese explorer best known for having planned and led the 1519–22 Spanish expedition to the East Indies, which achieved the first circumnavigation of Earth in history. During the expedition, he also discovered the Strait of Magellan, allowing his fleet to pass from the Atlantic into the Pacific Ocean and perform the first European navigation to Asia via the Pacific. Magellan died in the Philippines during his voyage, and his crew completed the return trip to Spain in 1522.

Juan Sebastián Elcano (1486/1487 – 4 August 1526) was a Spanish navigator, ship-owner and explorer of Basque origin] from Getaria, part of the Crown of Castile when he was born, best known for having completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth in the Spanish ship Victoria on the Magellan expedition to the Spice Islands. He received recognition for his achievement by Charles I of Spain with a coat of arms bearing a globe and the Latin motto Primus circumdedisti me (You were the first to circumnavigate me).

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