Spain 1949 50 centimos (56)

from the Mountain Groan Collection

This Spanish fifty centimos was issued by Franco's regime for circulation in 1951-65. All the issues of 1951-62 bear the date 1949 below the dictator's bust but have the actual date in the stars on the reverse. Some dates are scarce but this one is fairly common.

Recorded mintage: 38,000,000.

Specification: copper-nickel, 21 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: Cayón-17782, KM 777.

Sources:

• 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 Juan Carlos I, 1474 a 2001, Barcelona: Aureo & Calicó, 2008.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.

Link to:

• 1949(51) 5 pesetas
• 1953 10 centimos
• 1947(56) peseta
• 1953(56) 2½ pesetas
• 1957(58) 5 pesetas
• 1963(65) 50 centimos
• return to coins of Spain
• Coins and currency dated 1956