Whitman Expo
Replacement: Prefix 9B - 9D 2,000 pesetas Values
Details
Obverse: Spanish text; rosette as registration device; globe showing the Americas with hummingbird pattern underprint; priest and botanist, José Celstino Mutis (from painting by Isabel Quintanilla) examining flower with magnifying glass; stylized branch of cinchona tree
Reverse: Back (vertical): Spanish text; coat of arms; fleur-de-lys; early site plans for Royal Botanical Gardens in Madrid; “Mutisia Clematis” plate of plant sent by Mutis to Linneo from New Granda; neoclassical gate of the gardens; Spanish text from Mutis’ “History of the Cinchona Tree
