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5 Centimos Pattern
| Issuer | Spain |
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| Year | 1929 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1868-2001) |
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| Obverse lettering | 1929 ESPAÑA (Translation: Spain) |
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| Reverse lettering | CINCO - CENTIMOS (Translation: Five Centimos) |
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| Additional information |
Spain's monetary authorities were exploring a copper 5 céntimos replacement in the late 1920s as the existing iron coinage — introduced during wartime metal shortages — had proven deeply unpopular and corroded badly in circulation. This 1929 pattern was part of that reassessment, though the political upheaval of the coming years rendered the exercise moot. Primo de Rivera's dictatorship collapsed in January 1930, the Republic followed in 1931, and any coinage reform agenda from the late monarchy was abandoned entirely.