Spain 1953 10 centimos

from the Mountain Groan Collection

This Spanish ten centimos was struck 1940-45 and 1953 during the Franco régime. This is the most common date. The denomination was issued again and for the last time in 1959, its value destroyed by inflation.

Recorded mintage: 865,850,000 (may have been struck several years with a frozen date).

Specification: aluminum, 22.5 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: Cayón-17773, KM 766.

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:

• 1945 5 centimos
• 1949(51) 5 pesetas
• 1947(53) peseta
• 1956 2½ pesetas
• 1959 10 centimos
• return to coins of Spain
• Coins and currency dated 1953