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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 8095689, member: 10461&quot;]Yeah, that series date and &quot;secret&quot; date in the star indicating the actual year of issue are an interesting feature of certain Spanish coins.&nbsp; &quot;PTAS&quot; is of course the abbreviation for <i>pesetas</i>.&nbsp; (I did not know this- or the the thing about those &quot;secret&quot; dates- for my first several years as a collector.)</p><p><br /></p><p>That major lamination is pretty neat.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces781.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces781.html" rel="nofollow">Here&#039;s the Numista page for the type.</a></p><p><br /></p><p>So your piece, actually struck in 1968, would be catalogued as &quot;1957 (68)&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;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&#039;d say that makes it worth a few bucks, to the right person who found that interesting enough.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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