Spain 1896-PG V 50 centimos (96)
This specimen was lot 1004 in Classical Numismatic Group's sale of the Lissner Collection (Chicago, August 2014), where it sold for $726. The catalog description[1] noted, "SPAIN, Reino de España. Alfonso XIII. 1886-1931. AR 50 Centimos. Madrid mint. Félix Miguel Pieró Rodrigo, Antonio García González, and Remigo Vega Vega, assayers. Dated 1896 (9 6 en estrellas) PG V. In NGC encapsulation graded MS 65. Mottled obverse with silver gray patina and lustrous reverse. Highest graded for the date. Purchased from M. Louis Teller, June 1975." By the reform of 1870, the revolutionary government adopted the standard of the Latin Monetary Union, where one peseta = one French franc and five pesetas = 25 g of silver, 0.900 fine. The peseta remained in use (tho it ceased to be silver in the 1930's) until the adoption of the euro in 2001. After the turn of the century, repeated fiscal crises interrupted regular coinage. This design, struck 1896 and 1900, shows the king as a child.
Recorded mintage: 257,000.
Specification: 2.5 g, 0.835 fine silver, this specimen Ø17 mm, 2.49 g, 6h axis.
Catalog reference: Cayón-17600, KM 705.
- 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]Teller, M. Louis, and Victor England, Jr., The Richard Lissner Collection, Lancaster, PA: Classical Numismatic Group, 2014.
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