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5 Centimos - Carlos VII pretender
| Issuer | Carlist Government |
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| Year | 1875 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Carlos VII — Don Carlos de Borbón y Austria-Este — issued this bronze coinage during the Third Carlist War while his forces controlled substantial territory across the Basque Country and Navarre. The Carlist administration functioned as a parallel state during this period, operating its own mint at Oñate, collecting taxes, and issuing currency as deliberate assertions of legitimacy against the Restoration government in Madrid. The coin exists not as a curiosity but as a product of genuine wartime administration.
The war ended badly for the Carlists. By February 1876, Carlos VII crossed the Pyrenees into France, and Carlist-issued coinage ceased abruptly.