Catalan Union 1900 peseta
This specimen was lot 74671 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2023), where it sold for $432. The catalog description[1] noted, "SPAIN. Catalonia. Peseta, 1900. Barcelona Mint. Alfonso XIII. PCGS MS-65. Commemorating the Catalan Union. PCGS population: 1, 1 finer (MS-66). Delightful rainbow iridescence comes alive within the patina when this Gem is dipped under a light source. Presenting generous satin luster, and, as is to be expected from this popular commemorative, bold striking detail." 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: 5 g, 0.900 fine silver, 23 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: Cayón-unlisted, KM-unlisted, Cal-134 (formerly Cal-91); Crusafont-6050.
- 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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