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[[Image:Spain 1857 5 centimos CNG 942.jpg|550px|thumb|CNG Lissner collection, lot 942]]

This specimen was lot 942 in Classical Numismatic Group's sale of the Lissner Collection (Chicago, August 2014), where it sold for $272.25. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "SPAIN, Reino de España. Isabel II. 1833-1868. CU 5 Ce[n]timos. Decimal real coinage. Segovia mint; im: aqueduct. Dated 1857. In NGC encapsulation graded MS 65 BN. Gem reddish brown uncirculated. Highest and only graded for the date and none graded higher for the type. Purchased from M. Louis Teller, July 1980." This type was struck in Segovia 1854-64. It is one of the last coins to bear the aqueduct mintmark used since the sixteenth century. In 1850, the twenty reales was reduced to 26.91 grams and the copper maravedis dropped in favor of 1/20, 1/10 and 1/5 reales. Unfortunately, the government, financially prostrate as usual, was unable to remint the old coins, which continued to circulate as before. The coinage would be reformed a second time in 1866. 

''Recorded mintage:'' unknown but common.

''Specification:'' copper, 1.62-2.16 g, 17-18 mm diameter, this specimen Ø17 mm, 1.99 g, 12h axis.

''Catalog reference:'' [[Spanish and Spanish colonial coins listed by Cayón number|Cayón-16532]], KM 602. 

''[[Bibliography|Source:]]''
* 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. 
* O'Connor, Patrick, ''The Coins of Queen Isabel II of Spain: A Detailed Study of the Coins, Patterns and Medals of Her Reign'', San Antonio, TX: Aurora Rarities, LLC, 2017.
* <sup>[1]</sup>Teller, M. Louis, and Victor England, Jr., ''The Richard Lissner Collection,'' Lancaster, PA: Classical Numismatic Group, 2014. 

''Link to:''
* [[Spain 1856-Seg 5 centimos]]
* [[Spain 1857 4 reales 6 point star|1857(m) 4 reales]]
* [[Spain 1857 10 reales 6 point star|1857(m) 10 reales]]
* [[Spain 1857-Seg 25 centimos|1857-Seg 25 céntimos]]
* [[Spain 1857 real 6 point star|1857(m) real]]
* [[Spain 1857 2 reales 8 point star|1857(b) 2 reales]]
* [[Spain 1857 20 reales 6 point star|1857(m) 20 reales]]
* [[Spain 1857 100 reales 8 point star|1857(b) 100 reales]]
* [[Spain 1859-Seg 5 centimos]]
* [[Coins and currency dated 1857]]
* return to coinage of [[Spain]]

[[Category:Selections from the Lissner Collection]]