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1 Peseta - Juan Carlos I
| Issuer | Royal Mint of Spain (Real Casa de la Moneda) |
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| Year | 1976-1980 |
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| Engraver(s) | Manuel Marín Jimeno |
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| Obverse description | Unadorned left-facing effigy of King Juan Carlos I, rendered in high relief with a naturalistic portrait style. The king is depicted with short hair and wearing a suit collar, with no crown or diadem. The circumferential legend reads JUAN CARLOS I REY DE ESPAÑA, separated at the base by the frozen die date 1975 flanked by two small six-pointed stars. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded border. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Spain's transition from Francoism produced several coinage anomalies, and this series is one of them. The dies carry a date frozen at 1975 — the year of Franco's death — while the actual striking years run well into the reign of Juan Carlos I. The star privy marks, not the obverse date, tell you when each piece was actually minted.
Juan Carlos had been personally designated by Franco as his successor in 1969, bypassing his own father Don Juan. The early peseta coinage of his reign was, in a real sense, numismatic evidence of that uncomfortable inheritance.