10 Centimos - Provisional Government Pattern

The Provisional Government that authorized this pattern had only existed since the Glorious Revolution of September 1868, which expelled Isabel II and left Spain scrambling to define both a new political order and a new coinage system. Patterns from this administration are genuinely scarce — the government itself lasted only until Amadeo I took the throne in 1871, compressing the entire experimental minting window to under three years.

Aureo catalog attribution places this among a small group of copper trials that never reached circulation.