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20 Pesetas - Alfonso XIII 3rd portrait
| Issuer | Royal Mint of Spain (Real Casa de la Moneda) |
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| Year | 1896-1899 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | The crowned Arms of Spain occupying the central field, depicting the quartered royal shield with castles of Castile and lions of Leon, with the oval escutcheon of the House of Bourbon at the center, all supported by the royal mantle beneath a royal crown. The circular legend REY CONST. DE ESPANA arcs around the upper portion, with the denomination 20 PESETAS inscribed along the lower periphery. Mint assayer initials appear flanking the shield, and the design is enclosed within a beaded border. |
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| Mintage | 1896 MPM - *1962 - 12,000 1896 PGV - *1961 - 900 1899 SMV - *1899,Cal#7 - 2,085,934 |
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Alfonso XIII was an infant king — born to a posthumous throne in 1886, he reigned under his mother María Cristina's regency until 1902. These gold 20 pesetas issues span the catastrophic final years of that regency, bracketing the disasters of 1898: the Spanish-American War stripped Spain of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines in a matter of months, collapsing the colonial fiscal system that had partly underpinned the peseta's gold backing.
The "3rd portrait" designation tracks the aging of the boy king across successive effigy updates — a numismatic record of a child growing up while his empire dissolved around him.