1970 Equatorial Guinea 100 Pesetas Silver Proof Coin

Description: 1970 Equatorial Guinea 100 Pesetas Silver Proof Coin Goya's La Maja Desnuda Image is exactly of the item you are bidding on. Bid with confidence! All items shipped registered Mail with tracking number. Winning bidder to make the payment by PayPal. Please add $10.00 for S/H for US, $10.00 Canadian addresses. International shipping will be $15.00. For orders delivered in Canada the following taxes (GST or HST) apply for each province listed: (as of July 1, 2010): AB: 5%, BC 5%, MB 5%, NB 13%, NF 13%, NT 5%, NS 15%, NU 5%, ON 13%, PEI 5%, QC 5%, SK 5% and YT 5%. Tax on books is only 5% GST for all of Canada. We will email you total including tax after auction is over. Please Note: There is no sales tax on USA or international orders. Customs and duties fees are not included FeaturesIssuerEquatorial Guinea PeriodRepublic (1968-date) TypeNon-circulating coinYear1970Value100 PesetasCurrencyPeseta (1969-1975)CompositionSilver (.999)Weight20 gDiameter40 mmThickness3 mmShapeRoundTechniqueMilledOrientationCoin alignment ↑↓Demonetized1975NumberN#19969ReferencesKM# 13Commemorative issueGoya's La Maja DesnudaObverseCoat of ArmsScript: LatinLettering: REP. DE GUINEA ECUATORIAL LEY 9999 1970 100 PESETAS GUINEANASTranslation: Republic of Equatorial Guinea .9999 Purity 100 Guinean PesetasReverseFrancisco Goya's "La Maja Desnuda"Script: LatinLettering: MAJA DESNUDA * GOYA *Translation: Naked Maja GoyaEdgeReeded The Naked Maja (1800)It is likely that Goya painted the famously controversial La maja desnuda (The Naked Maja), for Manuel de Godoy, nobleman and prime minister of Spain. Godoy owned a number of paintings of the female nude and hung them in a private cabinet dedicated to this theme. The Naked Maja would have seemed daring and pornographic displayed alongside works such as Diego Velázquez’s Venus and Cupid (otherwise known as the Rokeby Venus, c. 1650). The model’s pubic hair is visible—considered obscene at the time—and the lower-class status of the maja, along with her blatant pose, with breasts and arms facing outward, suggests the subject is more sexually accessible than the traditional goddesses of Western art. However, she is more than merely an object of male desire. Here, Goya may be portraying the new marcialidad (“forthrightousness”) of Spanish women of the day and exploring the forbidden subject of female sexuality. The maja’s pose is complicated by her confronting gaze and cool flesh tones, which signify her autonomy. As art critic Robert Hughes wrote, she “is defiantly herself, alluring certainly, but decidedly on her own terms. She is not a sweet little thing, a passive and receptive appeal to male fantasy…. Even without her clothes (or perhaps especially so), she is the real maja, tough, sharp, and not to be pushed around.” Goya paid for his taboo-breaking act in 1815, when the Inquisition interrogated him about this painting and he was subsequently stripped of his role as court painter.

Price: 75 USD

Location: Mississauga, Ontario

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