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1 Centimo - Alfonso XII Pattern
| Issuer | Spain |
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| Year | 1878 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | The crowned royal coat of arms of Spain, quartered with castles and lions and bearing a central escutcheon, is displayed in the centre of the field, flanked on either side by symmetrical olive or laurel branches tied at the base. The legend 'REY CONST. DE ESPANA' arches around the upper portion, while 'UN CENTIMO' appears in the lower exergual area. The design is enclosed within a beaded border. |
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| Reverse lettering | REY CONST. DE ESPAÑA UN CENTIMO |
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Alfonso XII had only just consolidated his reign following the Bourbon Restoration of 1874 when the Madrid mint began exploring coinage reforms aligned with the Latin Monetary Union framework Spain had been eyeing. This copper pattern was part of a broader probe into small denomination feasibility — the production economics of one-céntimo pieces were perpetually awkward, and the denomination was effectively abandoned in regular coinage shortly after.
The Auréo reference places this among a tiny group of documented pattern survivors. Mintage figures for Spanish patterns of this period were never formally published.