F.N.M.T. – R.C.M. is issuing a series of collector coins as a tribute to Salvador Dalí. The set consists of two silver coins: a rectangular one weighing half a kilo (999 thousandths silver) and an 8-real one (925 thousandths silver).

Rectangular coin. Face value €150.

F.N.M.T. – R.C.M. is issuing a series of collector coins as a tribute to Salvador Dalí.

On the obverse, an image of Salvador Dalí’s painting, The Temptation of St. Anthony, which is kept at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels (Belgium). The image is surrounded by a border in the form of ants in procession.

On the reverse, to the left, a portrait of Salvador Dalí by photographer Melitó Casals. In the background of both the portrait and the legends, there is a detail from the painting The Temptation of St. Anthony. The devices and legends are surrounded by a border in the form of ants in procession.

The Temptation of St. Anthony is a surrealist painting produced by artist Salvador Dalí in 1946. This oil on canvas is kept at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels (Belgium). With this painting, Dalí took part, for the first and only time, in a competition to create a work of art with the temptation of St. Anthony as the theme. The winning painting would appear in the film based on the novel Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant. The winner of the competition was Max Ernst.

8 reales.

F.N.M.T. – R.C.M. is issuing a series of collector coins as a tribute to Salvador Dalí.

On the obverse, a portrait of Salvador Dalí by photographer Melitó Casals; to the right, at the top, Dalí’s signature. In the background, an allegory to Salvador Dalí’s work The disintegration of the persistence of memory. The devices and legends are surrounded by a border in the form of ants in procession.

On the reverse, a detail from Salvador Dalí’s painting Galatea of the Spheres, kept at Teatro-Museo Dalí, Figueres. Dalí produced Galatea of the Spheres in 1952. The work shows a bust of Gala made up of a matrix of spheres seemingly suspended in space. The devices and legends are surrounded by a border in the form of ants in procession.