Menorca 1937 5 centimos

from the Mountain Groan Collection

This specimen was issued by the island of Menorca in the Balearics when a coin shortage developed during the Spanish Civil War. Menorca issued five, ten and twenty-five centimos and one and 2½ pesetas. The brass alloy and crude design suggests local manufacture.

Recorded mintage: 42,000.

Specification: brass, 13 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: Cayón-17704, KM 1.

Source:

• Cayón, Adolfo, Clemente Cayón and Juan Cayón, Las Monedas Españolas, del Tremis al Euro: del 411 a Nuestros Dias, 2 volumes, 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.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.

Link to:

• Ametlla del Valles (1937) peseta
• Arenys de Mar (1937) peseta
• Arenys de Mar (1937) 50 centimos
• Asturias and Leon 1937 2 pesetas
• Gratallops (1937) 5, 10, 25, 50 centimos and peseta
• Ibi 1937 25 centimos
• Ibi 1937 peseta
• Menorca 1937 peseta
• Santander 1937 50 centimos
• 1937 50 centimos
• Euzkadi 1937 peseta
• 1949(51) peseta
• Coins and currency dated 1937
• return to Coinage of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939