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10 Centimos - Provisional Government Pattern
| Issuer | Provisional Government of Spain |
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| Year | 1870 |
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| Engraver(s) | Obverse: Atanasio Carrasco Reverse: Luis Plañiol y Méndez |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A heraldic lion passant guardant is depicted in the central field, facing left and resting its forepaw upon a quartered shield bearing the arms of Castile and León. The lion and shield rest upon a low plinth, below which the mint mark OM appears. The central device is enclosed within a beaded circle. The upper legend reads CIEN PIEZAS EN KILOG. and the lower legend reads DIEZ CENTIMOS, with the mint officials' initials S and F flanking the beaded border at the sides. |
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The Provisional Government came to power after the Glorious Revolution of September 1868 expelled Isabella II, leaving Spain without a monarch and its coinage in administrative limbo. Pattern issues from 1870 represent the committee-driven scramble to establish a decimal currency system under the new regime — the same reform effort that would produce the peseta as Spain's official unit later that year.
KM#Pn12 is one of several copper patterns evaluated before production specifications were finalized. That it never advanced to circulation is itself informative: the Provisional Government's monetary planners ultimately favored different weight and module standards for the fractional coinage.