5 Centimos Pattern

The 1929 Spanish patterns in copper were produced under Primo de Rivera's dictatorship, a regime that had suspended the Cortes and ruled by royal decree since 1923. By 1929, the peseta was under severe pressure — speculation against the currency had become a crisis — and monetary reform proposals were actively circulating within government circles. Whether this pattern relates directly to those discussions or simply reflects routine pre-production testing is unresolved. The Aureo reference places it within a small documented group, but surviving examples are genuinely scarce.