Post Your 'One Year Only' Coins (Not Commemoratives!)

Great coins everyone!

In 1976 the Spanish Mint issued the first coins for King Juan Carlos I. They bore the King's accession date 1975, along with the actual year of minting inside six-pointed stars. The 50 centimos and 1 peseta coins had the same reverse designs as the last coins issued under Francisco Franco.

The 1 peseta was issued with the same reverse design each year until 1980, but rising inflation meant that the 50c was falling out of use. Only one further issue was made, in 1980, and that coin bore a commemorative design for the 1982 Soccer World Cup. So the 1975 (*76) 50 centimos is a one-year type:

Here is one of a few of mine that is a one year type:

Mexico 1935 50 centavos, at that unique percentage of 42% silver...

Mexico minted over 70 million of these, so not a rare coin, but obtainable.

Interesting examples!

Great info kbbpll.

Nice pair!

This one is really obscure, but is another Barber quarter one-year type. It was well-known that both the obverse and reverse hubs changed in 1900, and continued through the end of the series. The most obvious obverse change is characterized by a change to the inner ear. However, the obverse actually changed twice during 1900, resulting in three types, all used during 1900. The ear change was first accompanied by a middle crossbar in the W, and then modified so that the W crossbar disappeared. Other tiny changes were made to the serifs of R and both T's, the latter becoming "stubby." I discovered and published this in BCCS journal a year or two ago. The transitional "new obverse with crossbar W" only exists in 1900, and the "missing crossbar" type finished out the series.

With three obverse and two reverse types across three mints, there are 18 possible combinations in 1900. Only 15 combinations are known. No idea why Barber messed with the obverse hub twice in one year.

Here is my 1900-P Obverse 2 over Reverse 3, the one-year type.

The three types for 1900.

The pickup points to distinguish the tiny changes.

Very interesting and great read! Thank you kbbpll!

Yugoslavia through the ages...

1920 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats & Slovenes 25 para


1938 Kingdom of Yugoslavia 1, 2 & 10 dinara




1945 Democratic Federal Yugoslavia 5 dinara


1953 People's Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 50 para, 1, 2 & 5 dinara





and 1955 10, 20 & 50 dinara




1963 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 2, 5 & 10 dinara




1965 1 dinar


1968 1 dinar


1994 Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 50 para (small)


1995 10 & 50 para (large)