Spain 1881-MS M 25 pesetas Fr-342
This specimen was lot 456 in Áureo y Calicó sale 347 (Barcelona, March 2020), where it did not sell. The catalog description[1] noted,
"1881/0*1881. Alfonso XII. MSM. 25 pesetas. La alfonsina de 1881 del primer tipo sin barba es seguramente la pieza más rara del Centenario de la Peseta en oro. MBC+. (kingdom of Spain, Alfonso XII, 25 pesetas of 1881, first type without beard. Surely the rarest gold coin of the peseta period. Very fine or better."
This type, struck 1876-81, is common enough to sell as a bullion coin but the 1881 is a famous rarity; nearly all the 1881's featured the bearded bust of the king. After 1889, Spain struck twenty pesetas on the same module as French twenty francs d'or.
Recorded mintage: unknown but few.
Specification: 8.064 g, 0.900 fine gold, .233 troy oz AGW, this specimen 8,05 g.
Catalog reference: Fr-342, KM 673, Cayón-17532, AC. 80.
- 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, 1801-1900, 9th ed.’’, Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Sisó, Teresa, Eduard Domingo and Lluís Lalana, Subasta Publica 345: Colección Manuela Etcheverría, Barcelona: Áureo y Calicó, 2020.
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