fair warning about the Spanish coins, they will typically have two "years" on them, one the big years, and a year that is split up between two stars. The first "year" is the design year, the second one (the one in the stars) is the actual mint year. Your Cien Pesetas are 500 Pesetas. As with most other coins, some years and mintmarks are worth more then others (I'm not sure on the Spanish key dates or mintmarks), this is where the Krause book or any other book with coin mintage numbers will be useful, because of course the lower the mintage and the older the coin typically mean that they will be worth more for selling.
As for the "dual date" system, Spain stopped using that quite a long time (about 30 years) ago, but yes, for the older pieces it sure is relevant. As for the face values, diez is 10 and cien is 100. The 25 pesetas coin from 1996 honors the region Castilla La Mancha region; on one side you can see Don Quijote fighting a windmill, on the other side you have the "casas colgadas", the hanging houses in Cuenca. Don't expect much in terms of value, but those sure are nice pieces ... Christian
Christian, Thank you for the corrections, and for more information on the Castilla La Mancha 25 pesetas.
Except that the original post (here and in the similar topics about other countries) is now gone. Hope that our comments still make some sense to other readers. Christian
