Spain 1959 10 centimos

from the Mountain Groan Collection

This Spanish ten centimos was struck 1959 only during the Franco régime. The denomination was not issued again, its value destroyed by inflation.

Recorded mintage: 900,000,000 plus 101,000 proofs (may have been struck several years with a frozen date).

Specification: aluminum, 18 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: Cayón-17774, KM 790.

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:

• 1953 10 centimos
• 1953(56) 2½ pesetas
• 1957(58) 5 pesetas
• 1957(59) 25 pesetas
• 1957(59) 50 pesetas
• 1966(70) peseta
• return to coins of Spain
• Coins and currency dated 1959