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5 Centavos
| Issuer | Madrid Mint |
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| Year | 1896 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features the denomination numeral '5' prominently displayed in the center of the field, with the word 'CENTAVOS' inscribed along the lower arc of the legend. The circular legend 'ISLA DE PUERTO RICO' runs along the upper periphery, separated from the denomination by a beaded inner border. The date '1896' appears at the bottom of the coin, flanked on either side by a small five-pointed star. The overall design is plain and typographic in character, emphasizing legibility within a toothed outer rim. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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This issue belongs to the Philippine coinage struck under Spanish authority in the final years before the archipelago's cession to the United States following the Spanish-American War of 1898. By 1896 — the year Andrés Bonifacio launched the Katipunan uprising against Spanish colonial rule — the Madrid Mint was still producing coins for a colony already in open revolt. Pieces that reached the islands during this period faced an increasingly disrupted monetary environment, and many were withdrawn or melted during the subsequent American transition to a new coinage system after 1903.