Banknotes of Spain

There is no significant legislation on the copyright of the Spanish peseta banknotes and their reproductions are permitted, except for advertising.

• Obverse — Reverse — Value — Dimensions (mm) — Description — Emission date • 25 — 105x67 — Allegorical children bearers at left and right of center — 1 July 1874 • — 50 — 146x80 — Rafael Esteve at left • 100 — 170x78 — Juan de Herrera at left, El Escorial at center • 500 — 174x99 — Francisco Goya at right • 1000 — 187x118 — Minerva at left, Alonso Cano at right

• Obverse — Reverse — Value — Dimensions (mm) — Description — Emission date • 25 — 1 January 1875 • 50 • 100 • 500 • 1000 • 100 — Lope de Vega at left — 1 July 1876 • 500 • 1000 — Lope de Vega at left, Spaniard with Indian maiden at center, Liberty at lower right • 50 — Pedro Calderón de la Barca at right — 1 January 1878 • 100 — Garcilaso de la Vega at left • 250 — Fernando de Herrera at left • 500 — Pablo de Céspedes at left • 1000 — Miguel de Cervantes at left • 50 — Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes at left — 1 April 1880 • 100 — Francisco de Quevedo at left • 500 — Claudio Coello at left • 1000 — Bartolomé Murillo at left • 25 — 112x68 — Geography lesson painting, Spanish coat of arms on the reverse — 1 January 1884 • 50 — 123x78 — Juan Álvarez Mendizábal at right, Woman watering an eagle on the reverse • 100 — 133x87 — Juan Álvarez Mendizábal at right, numerals on the reverse • 500 — 144x95 — Juan Álvarez Mendizábal at right, Spanish coat of arms on the reverse • 1000 — 152x103 — Juan Álvarez Mendizábal at center, key, dog and safe on the reverse • 25 — 112x74 — Ramón de Santillán at center, numerals on the reverse — 1 July 1884 • 50 — 120x80 — Juan Bravo Murillo at center, numerals on the reverse • 100 — 145x85 — Alejandro Mon y Menéndez at center, steam locomotive on the reverse • 500 — 147x100 — José Moñino, 1st Count of Floridablanca at right, numerals on the reverse • 1000 — 166x104 — Zenón de Somodevilla, 1st Marqués de la Ensenada at left • 25 — 100x75 — Francisco Goya at center — 1 October 1886 • 50 — 120x80 — Francisco Goya at right • 100 — 142x84 — Francisco Goya at left • 500 — 146x100 • 1000 — 165x103 — Francisco Goya seated at right • 25 — 110x74 — Francisco Goya at center, Croesus effigy on the reverse — 1 June 1889 • 50 — 120x80 — Francisco Goya at right • 100 — 142x84 • 25 — 110x70 — Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos at left — 24 July 1893 • 50 — 124x77 • 100 — 137x83 • 1000 — 168x105 — François Cabarrus at left, Charles III of Spain effigy on the reverse — 1 May 1895 • 50 — 124x77 — Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos at left — 2 January 1898 • 100 — 137x83 — 24 June 1898 • 25 — 110x55 — Francisco de Quevedo at left — 17 May 1899 • 50 — 120x63 — 25 November 1899 • 100 — 132x72 — Francisco de Quevedo at left; Athena effigy on the reverse — 1 May 1900 • 50 — 137x80 — Diego Velázquez at left, Velázquez painting Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan on the reverse — 30 November 1902 • 100 — 1903, 1905 • 500 — 1 October 1903 • 25 — 1 January 1904, not issued • 50 — José Echegaray at left — 19 March 1905 • 25 — 24 September 1906 • 50 • 100 — 30 June 1906 • 500 — 28 January 1907 • 1000 — Mercury with globe on shoulder at left, shield with castle at lower left, shield with rampant lion at lower right — 10 May 1907 • 25 — Alhambra on the reverse — 15 July 1907 • 50 — Cathedral of Burgos on the reverse • 100 — Cathedral of Seville on the reverse • 500 — Alcázar de Segovia on the reverse • 1000 — Royal Palace of Madrid on the reverse • 25 — José Quintana at left — 1 December 1908 (not issued) • 5 — Ferdinand VI of Spain — 1914 (not issued) • 1000 — Conjoined portraits of Alfonso XIII of Spain and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg at left — 23 May 1915 (not issued) • — — 100 — Philip II of Spain at left, monastery of El Escorial at lower center; retreat of Philip II of Spain on the reverse — 1 July 1925 • 500 — Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros at left — 23 January 1925 (not issued) • 1000 — Charles V at right, gorgon head at top center — 1 July 1925 • 25 — Francis Xavier at left; Francis Xavier baptizing Indians on the reverse — 12 October 1926 • 50 — Alfonso XIII of Spain at left; founding of Buenos Aires on the reverse — 17 May 1927 • 500 — Lions Court at Alhambra at center, Isabella I of Castile at right — 24 July 1927 • 25 — Pedro Calderón de la Barca at right — 15 August 1928 • 50 — Prado Museum at lower left and center, Diego Velázquez at right; painting The Surrender of Breda on the reverse • — — 100 — Miguel de Cervantes at left; painting of Don Quijote by Pidal on the reverse • 500 — Cathedral of Toledo at lower left, Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros above • 1000 — Cathedral of Seville at lower left, San Fernando at right; painting of King receiving communion by Alejandro Ferrant y Fischermans on the reverse

• Obverse — Reverse — Value — Dimensions (mm) — Description — Emission date • 25 — 112x73 — Vicente López y Portaña at right; Portaña's painting Music on the reverse — 25 April 1931 • — — 50 — 122x78 — Eduardo Rosales at left; Rosales' painting The Death of Lucretia on the reverse • 100 — 131x83 — Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba at left; The Two Caudillos painting by José Casado del Alisal on the reverse • 500 — 142x87 — Juan Sebastián de Elcano at left; Elias Salaverria's painting Disembarkation on the reverse • 1000 — José Zorrilla at upper left; Zorrilla reading his poems at gathering on the reverse • 25 — Joaquín Sorolla at left; Sorollas' painting Oxen taking the boat out on the reverse — 31 August 1936 • 50 — Santiago Ramón y Cajal at right, Ramón y Cajal monument on the reverse — 22 July 1935 • 500 — Hernán Cortés at left, his palace in Mexico at lower right center; O. Graeff's painting of Cortés scuttling his ships on the reverse — 7 January 1935 • 5 — 89x50 — Republic allegory at left — 1935 • — — 10 — 101x61 — Republic allegory at right • 100 — 129x89 — Lady of Elche at left, Palmeral of Elche on the reverse — 11 March 1938 (not issued) • 100 — 127x69 — Numerals on both sides — 15 August 1938 (not issued) • 5000 — 161x97 — Mariano Fortuny at right; Fortuny's picture La Vicaría on the reverse — 11 June 1938 (not issued) • 50 cent. — 78x37 — Republic allegory — 1937 • 1 — 86x46 — Nike of Samothrace at left; La Cibeles Fountain in Madrid on the reverse • 2 — Republic allegory, Toledo Bridge in Madrid on the reverse — 1938 • 5 — Spanish coat of arms on upper right — 21 November 1936 • 10 • 25 — Soldier effigy on the reverse • 50 — Women effigies on the reverse • 100 — Cathedral of Burgos on the reverse • 500 — New Cathedral of Salamanca on the reverse • 1000 — Puente de Alcántara in the foreground and Alcázar of Toledo in the background on the reverse • — 1 — 72x52 — House of Bourbon Spanish royal family coat of arms (1759-1931) at left — 12 October 1937 • 2 — Burgos Cathedral at left • 5 — Commerce allegory at right — 18 July 1937 • 25 — Christopher Columbus at left; Columbus in the New World on the reverse — 18 July 1937 (not issued) • 100 — Francisco Javier Castaños, 1st Duke of Bailén at right; Battle of Bailén on the reverse • 1000 — Charles V at center • 1 — 72x52 — Francoist Spain coat of arms at left — 28 February 1938 • 30 April 1938 • 2 — Burgos Cathedral at left • 5 — Numerals — 10 August 1938 • 25 — Numerals, Giralda on the reverse — 20 May 1938 • 50 — Numerals, Walls of Ávila on the reverse • 100 — Numerals, House of Cordón (Burgos) on the reverse • 500 — Numerals, Santiago de Compostela Cathedral on the reverse • 1000 — Numerals, César Álvarez Dumont's painting Heroic combat in the pulpit of the church of San Agustín de Zaragoza in the second siege of 1809 on the reverse

• Obverse — Reverse — Value — Dimensions (mm) — Description — Emission date • 25 — Juan de Herrera at left, Patio de Evangelistas at right — 9 January 1940 • 50 — Menéndez Pelayo at left • 100 — Christopher Columbus at center • 500 — John of Austria at right; Battle of Lepanto with old ships on the reverse • 1000 — Bartolomé Murillo at center; Murillo painting Children Counting Money on the reverse • 1 — Hernán Cortés on horseback at right — 1 June 1940 • Sailing ship Santa María at center — 4 September 1940 • 5 — Alcázar of Segovia at right • 500 — Conde de Orgaz by El Greco at right — 21 October 1940 • 1000 — Charles V at left • 1 — Ferdinand II of Aragon at left; Christopher Columbus landing on the reverse — 21 May 1943 • 5 — Isabella I of Castile at left; Christopher Columbus with his men at center — 13 February 1943 • 1 — Isabella I of Castile at left — 15 June 1945 • — 5 — Isabella I of Castile and Christopher Columbus at left; Spaniards fighting Moors on the reverse • — 25 — Álvaro Flórez Estrada at left; view of Pola de Somiedo on the reverse — 19 February 1946 • 100 — Francisco Goya at right; The Sun Shade by Goya on the reverse • 500 — Francisco de Vitoria at right; University of Salamanca on the reverse • 1000 — Luis Vives at right; cloister at college in Valencia on the reverse • 5 — Seneca the Younger (the Pseudo-Seneca bust) at right — 12 April 1947 • — 1 — Lady of Elche at right — 19 June 1948 • 5 — Juan Sebastián Elcano at left — 5 March 1948 • 100 — Francisco Bayeu y Subías at left; Goya's El Cacharrero on the reverse — 2 May 1948 • 1000 — Ramón de Santillán at right; Goya's El Bebedor on the reverse — 4 November 1949 • — — 1 — Don Quijote at right, armour, spear, shield, sword, helmet and books on the reverse — 19 November 1951 • 5 — Jaime Balmes at left — 16 August 1951 • 50 — Santiago Rusiñol at right; Rusiñol's Jardines de Aranjuez on the reverse — 31 December 1951 • 500 — Mariano Benlliure at left; sculpture by Benlliure on the reverse — 15 October 1951 • 1000 — Joaquín Sorolla at center; Sorolla's painting La fiesta del naranjo on the reverse — 31 December 1951 • — — 1 — Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquis of Santa Cruz at right — 22 July 1953 • — — 100 — Julio Romero de Torres at center; La Fuensanta by Torres on the reverse — 7 April 1953 • 5 — Alfonso X of Castile at right; library and museum building in Madrid on the reverse — 22 July 1954 • 25 — Isaac Albeniz at left; patio scene of the Lion's Court of Alhambra on the reverse • 500 — Ignacio Zuloaga at center; painting by Zuloaga View of Toledo on the reverse • — 1000 — Catholic Monarchs at center, arms on the reverse — 29 November 1957 • 100 — Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer at center right; woman with parasol at center, Cathedral of Sevilla at left on the reverse — 19 November 1965 • 1000 — Isidore of Seville at left — 19 October 1965 • — — 100 — Manuel de Falla at right; gardens of Alhambra at left center on the reverse — 17 November 1970 • — 500 — Jacinto Verdaguer at right; view of Mt. Canigó with village of Vignolas d'Oris on the reverse — 23 July 1971 • — 1000 — Commemorative issue -Centennial of Banco de España becoming the only Issuing Bank (1874-1974). José Echegaray at right; Bank of Spain in Madrid on the reverse — 17 September 1971 • 5000 — Charles III of Spain at right; Museum of Prado at left center on the reverse — 6 February 1976 • — 200 — 120x65 — Leopoldo Alas at right — 16 September 1980 • — — 500 — 129x70 — Rosalia de Castro at right — 23 October 1979 • — — 1000 — 138x76 — Benito Pérez Galdós at right; rocks, mountains and map of Canary Islands on the reverse • — 2000 — 147x79 — Juan Ramón Jiménez at right; Villa de la Rosa at left center on the reverse — 22 July 1980 • — 5000 — 156x85 — Fleur-de-lis at center, Juan Carlos I at right; Royal Palace of Madrid at left on the reverse — 23 October 1979 • — 10,000 — 165x85 — Juan Carlos I at right; Felipe, Prince of Asturias at left, view of the Escorial at center on the reverse — 24 September 1985 • — 47px]] — 1000 — 130x65 — Hernán Cortes and a globe; Francisco Pizarro on the reverse in vertical format — 12 October 1992 • 2000 — 147x79 — José Celestino Mutis observing flower at right; Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid and title page of Mutis' work on the reverse in vertical format — 24 April 1992 • 2000 — 138x68 — Modified portrait of José Celestino Mutis observing flower in vertical format; Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid and title page of Mutis' work on the reverse — 24 April 1992 (1996) • — 5000 — 146x71 — Christopher Columbus at right; astrolabe at lower center on the reverse in vertical format — 12 October 1992 • — 10,000 — 154x74 — Juan Carlos I at right, Casa de América at lower center; Jorge Juan above astronomical navigation diagram on the reverse in vertical format