Front: 2nd Coat of Arms (June 1991)
with (motto on ribbon) حرية ديمقراطية وحدة
(translated: Liberty, Democracy, Unity)
legend: (top-right, state name in Arabic) الجمهورية الصحراوية
(left/right, spacers/5-pointed stars) ★ (pointed outwards)
(lower-right, value) 5000
(below, currency in Arabic) البيزيتا الصحراوية
(translated: Saharaui Pesetas)
Back: Spanish novelist Miguel de Cervantes (left)
* ~29 September 1547, Alcalá de Henares, Spain
⚭ (12.XII.1584) 12 December 1584 (15..--31.X.1626)
† diabetes, (22 April 1616 (aged 68) Madrid, Spain
buried: 1st (23.IV) Convent of the Barefoot Trinitarians, Madrid
2nd (11.VI.2015) St. Ildefonso church of the abbey
sitting in opening in front of landscape
with huts and camels between (left) Don Quixote (left)
holding sword above his head standing behind a large book
(right, incuse value in Spanish) 5000 PESETAS SAHARAUIS
above (small incuse year) 1997
(below, incuse name and life years) CERVANTES 1574-1616
(bottom) Four books
legend: (subject in Spanish) EL ESPAÑOL PATRIMONIO
DE NUESTRO PUEBLO
(below, state name in Spanish) REPUBLICA SAHARAUI
Edge: G - grained, type: bars