View attachment 717589 View attachment 717590 I'm an "ancients guy" mostly but I have a stash of world coins, mostly modern. I came across this "una peseta" from Francisco Franco's government from 1966. I thought it was cool and a bit unusual. View attachment 717589 View attachment 717590
Take a closer look at both sides of "UNA" and you will see the real date the coin was issued. It looks like 1972.
Spain did that with a lot of coins.Just a quick look at The Standard Catalog and most issues from around 1949 to 1980 all had a fixed date with small dates elsewhere on the coins. Not a clue why, although I am sure someone here does.
Perhaps you should consider removing the word "fascist" from the initial post...what makes you think Spain was fascist in the 60's?
I visited Spain in 1964 and it was a Fascist state then. Francisco Franco Bahamonde was a Spanish general who ruled over Spain as a military dictator from 1939 until his death in 1975. The coins are extremely common.
The Spanish mint started using such small dates in 1868. The big and "easy" date is a sort of government authorization date; the small one (sometimes two digits in one star, sometimes four in two stars) refers to when the coin was minted. Not all Spanish coins minted in those years - they stopped doing that in 1982 - have such dual dates but most do. Christian
The Republicans were a leftist govt. made up of anarchists/ communists and anti-Catholics/ anti-Monarchists, while Franco led a Pro-Catholic/ Monarchist/ Conservative counter-revolutionary faction. During the Civil War, while Franco's "White Terror" did commit war crimes, the Republicans version called the "Red Terror" accounted for many more victims. After the War ended in 1939, Franco ran Spain as a benevolent " strongman. He also kept his word that after his death, that the monarchy should be restored. He also kept Spain out of WW2, although some volunteered to fight vs Josef Stalin's USSR, as the , "Blue Brigade". Back to coins, Franco authourized the Spanish Mint to produce offical restrikes of some of the gold coins from Alfonso XII/XIII these were struck in 1961/62.
Guess there is a reason why, after the end of Franco's dictatorship, his birthplace changed its name - from "El Ferrol del Caudillo" to the plain "Ferrol" again. The inscription around his portrait on coins, as in the first post, says "Caudillo de España por la G. de Dios". Franco, leader of Spain by the grace of God? Hmm. Interestingly, under his regime Spain did not issue any commemorative coins. That changed when Spain became a democracy and Juan Carlos became king. Lots of commems and special pieces for collectors since then ... Christian
