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5 Pesetas - Alfonso XIII 1st portrait
| Issuer | Royal Mint of Spain (Real Casa de la Moneda) |
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| Year | 1888-1892 |
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| Value | 5 Pesetas (5 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed youthful effigy of King Alfonso XIII as a child, facing left, with naturalistically rendered short wavy hair and a truncated bust, engraved in high relief. The engraver's initials G·S· appear at the truncation below the bust. The date is positioned at the bottom of the field between two six-pointed stars. The circular legend reads ALFONSO XIII POR LA G. DE DIOS, distributed around the upper periphery within a toothed border. |
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| Reverse description | The quartered Spanish royal coat of arms — displaying castles of Castile and lions of León in alternate quarters, with the central escutcheon bearing the fleur-de-lys of the Bourbon dynasty — surmounted by a large ornate royal crown. The shield is flanked on either side by the Pillars of Hercules, each wrapped with a ribbon inscribed PLUS and ULTRA respectively. The denomination 5 PESETAS appears in the exergue at the bottom, with mint assayer initials M·P· at lower left and M· at lower right. The surrounding legend REY CONST.L DE ESPANA runs along the upper periphery within a toothed border. |
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| Mintage | 1888 MPM - *1888,Cal#13 - 10,643,900 1888 MSM - *1888,Cal#12 - 1889 MPM - *1889,Cal#14 - 4,681,328 1890 MPM - *1890,Cal#15 - 4,275,258 1890 MPM - medal alignment - 1890 PGM - *1890,Cal#16 - 3,000,000 1891 PGM - *1891,Cal#17 - 11,659,556 1892 PGM - *1892,Cal#18 - 7,000,000 |
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