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50 Pesetas - Francisco Franco 25 Years of Peace, pattern
| Issuer | Spain |
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| Year | 1964 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Reverse description | A composite allegorical design celebrating Spanish industrial and agricultural progress, featuring stylized electrical pylons and industrial towers, wheat ears symbolizing agricultural wealth, residential buildings, and a cogwheel representing industry. The denomination 50 PTAS appears prominently in the field, with a star below containing the two-digit mint year 64, identifying this as a 1964-dated striking of the 1957 type. The overall composition reflects the economic development iconography associated with the 25 Years of Peace commemorative issue. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 PTAS * |
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The "25 Years of Peace" coinage was Franco's most explicit attempt to reframe the Civil War's legacy — not as a wound but as a founding moment, with 1939 cast as year zero of a prosperous new Spain. This pattern piece preceded the circulating issue, which ultimately appeared in aluminum-bronze rather than copper-nickel. The composition change was partly economic, partly aesthetic: the warmer alloy photographed better on propaganda material.
Aureo catalogues this as pattern 131, one of several trial strikes in different metals tested before the final specification was fixed.