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10 Centimos - Francisco Franco Pattern, copper
| Issuer | Spain |
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| Year | 1959 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1868-2001) |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing bare-headed effigy of Francisco Franco, rendered in high relief with fine detail to the hair and facial features. The portrait is strongly modelled in a realist style, occupying the central field. The circular legend reads FRANCISCO FRANCO CAUDILLO DE ESPAÑA POR LA G. DE DIOS, with the date 1959 flanked by two raised dots positioned in the lower field below the truncation. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The 1959 date places this pattern squarely within Spain's Stabilization Plan — the technocratic economic overhaul pushed by Franco's Opus Dei ministers that dismantled the autarkic policies of the previous two decades. A wholesale currency and coinage reorganization accompanied the plan, generating multiple pattern strikings as the mint evaluated new compositions and module sizes. This copper piece was among the candidates considered before aluminum-bronze was selected for circulating production.
Aureo catalogues very few confirmed examples.