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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 2964123, member: 39&quot;]Nice coin, also because of the navy reference. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> The orientation of the arrows, by the way, is quite interesting. That symbol - yoke and arrows - refers to Ferdinand and Isabella who used it (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Monarchs#Motto_and_badges" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Monarchs#Motto_and_badges" rel="nofollow">see here</a>). In the 1930s the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falange_Española_de_las_JONS" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falange_Española_de_las_JONS" rel="nofollow">Falange</a> adopted that symbol, and Franco then used it as the symbol of the only party that was allowed during his regime. The first version of this coin had arrows that, for whichever reason, pointed down. Production had begun in early 1951 and had to be interrupted after two months; then the arrows were modified. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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