just got this in, i also got over 50 proof cents and nickels all with strike throughs, but they are so small it is hard to show with my cheap camera phone with it's tiny 16 megapixels..but they are nice, proof errors carry a good premium, but for now, going in my collection..here is the spanish (i think) coin enjoy!!
Your coin probably isn't 1957. The actual date is on the star on the left reverse. The pics are too blurry, but it may be from the 60s.
Very nice error. I have a companion 1957 (actually a 58 as per the star) 50 ptas. Unfortunately not an error though. Minor rim damage
it says 68 in the star, why is the date there?? or does it mean something else, i thought the big one on obverse??
A also have the 1980 Spain Six Coin 1982 World Cup Soccer Set - now thats confusing. The FIFA tournament final was held in the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in the Spanish capital Madrid. Italy won 3-1 against Germany
wow, ok, that is weird..never saw that before, guess it is like all those gold coins i see advertised that are re-issues then??
I have the same one. I wonder if it has the same date coins in it. Do you have any of these @Oldhoopster ? 1980 25 Ptas
Yeah, that series date and "secret" date in the star indicating the actual year of issue are an interesting feature of certain Spanish coins. "PTAS" is of course the abbreviation for pesetas. (I did not know this- or the the thing about those "secret" dates- for my first several years as a collector.) That major lamination is pretty neat. Here's the Numista page for the type. So your piece, actually struck in 1968, would be catalogued as "1957 (68)". It's an extremely common coin which would only be worth a few cents or so- a typical find in bulk lots- but the lamination does add interest and I'd say that makes it worth a few bucks, to the right person who found that interesting enough.
Not really a restrike, per se, so much as just a different way of putting the dates on the coins. The "main" date on the obverse below the bust is more like the dates you see on US currency. They refer to the series, and not necessarily the actual year the bill was printed. It is the same sort of thing with these Spanish coins, only they at least give you a subtle clue to the year the coin was struck by adding those two digits in that little star.
