fwo_889039 - SPAIN - KINGDOM OF SPAIN - ALFONSO XII 5 Pesetas 1875 Madrid
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Type : 5 Pesetas
Date: 1875
Mint name / Town : Madrid
Quantity minted : 8641000
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 37 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 24,77 g.
Edge : inscrite en relief
Coments on the condition:
Traces de nettoyage, métal piqué à l’avers
Obverse
Obverse legend : ALFONSO XII REY - DE ESPANA / * 1875 *.
Obverse description : Portrait à gauche du roi Alphonse XII.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LEY 900 MILLESIMAS 40 PIEZAS EN KILOG. // 5 PESETAS.
Reverse description : écu couronné écartelé de Castille, de Léon, d'Aragon, de Navarre, enté en pointe de Grenade ; sur-le-tout de Bourbon-Anjou, entre les colonnes d’Hercule.
Historical background
SPAIN - KINGDOM OF SPAIN - ALFONSO XII
(29/12/1874-25/12/1885)
Alphonse XII (28/11/1857-25/12/1885) is the son of Isabella II who abdicated in her favor in 1868. After the eviction of Amédée de Savoie, king from 1871 to 1873, the republic is proclaimed on February 11, 1873 but Alphonse XII was restored to the Spanish throne on December 29, 1874. He married Maria Mercedes de Bourbon (1860-1878) then in 1879 Marie-Christine of Austria (1858-1929) who gave him a posthumous son , the future Alfonso XIII.
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