100 Pesetas Alhucemas

The Alhucemas landing of September 1925 was the first successful amphibious assault in modern warfare to deploy combined air, naval, and ground forces in coordinated fashion — a tactical blueprint later studied extensively in planning the Allied landings of World War II. Spain and France jointly executed the operation to break Abd el-Krim's Rif Republic, effectively ending a revolt that had humiliated both colonial powers since the Spanish disaster at Annual in 1921, where some 8,000 troops were lost in a single campaign.

This commemorative falls within Spain's long-running FNMT-RCM collector series revisiting pivotal national events. Silver-plated copper-nickel rather than solid silver.