Catalan Union 1900 5 centimos
This specimen was lot 74673 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2023), where it sold for $240. The catalog description[1] noted, "SPAIN. Catalonia. Medallic 5 Centimos, 1900. Barcelona Mint. Alfonso XIII. PCGS MS-64 Red Brown. . Commemorating the Catalan Union. Light olive brown over most of the motifs and into the exposed fields, with perhaps about 40% of the original orange red remaining. Lustrous and very pleasing, this SCARCE issuance would strengthen any collection that touches upon Catalan coinage." This coin is part of a privately minted six piece set (five and ten centimos in bronze, one and 5 pesetas in silver and twenty and 100 pesetas in gold). Wikipedia comments,
"The conservative elements of Catalan nationalism founded the League of Catalonia in 1887 who, in 1891, were united with the group La Renaixença, creating the Unió Catalanista (Catalanist Union). The Unió redacted, in 1892, the Basis of Catalan regional autonomy, also known as Basis of Manresa, a program that demanded a specific autonomy for Catalonia."
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 10 g, copper or bronze, 30 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: Cayón-unlisted, KM-unlisted, Cal-132 (formerly Cal-92).
- Cayón, Adolfo, Clemente Cayón and Juan Cayón, Las Monedas Españolas, del Tremis al Euro: del 411 a Nuestros Dias, vol. 1, Madrid: Cayón-Jano S.L., 2005.
- Calicó, Xavier, Numismática Española: Catálogo General con Precios de Todas las Monedas Españolas Acuñadas desde Los Reyes Católicos Hasta Felipe VI, 1474 a 2020, Barcelona: Aureo & Calicó, 2019.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, February 2023 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, featuring the David Sterling Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2023.
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