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5 Pesetas - Alfonso XII 1st portrait, legend in edge
| Issuer | Royal Mint of Spain |
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| Year | 1875-1877 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Lettered |
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Alfonso XII returned to Spain in January 1875 following the Bourbon Restoration engineered by General Martínez Campos, ending three years of republican chaos and the disastrous Cantonal uprisings. The mint moved quickly to produce a proper national coinage under the restored monarchy, and this 5 Pesetas type — carrying the young king's first official portrait — was the immediate result. The milled edge legend was a deliberate anti-counterfeiting measure inherited from the Peseta system introduced under Amadeo I in 1869.
Dies for this short-lived first portrait type were replaced by 1878 with a revised effigy.