Islas Filipinas Peso 1897

That has to be the youngest looking Monarch I have ever seen on a coin. And that reverse is one of my favourite designs, so much history and ties to so many countries.

Very nice find, I've been looking for one of these for some time.

in 1892 Spain issued a 50 centimos, peseta, 2 pesetas and 5 pesetas with the childhead of the Spanish king

in 2004 in the Netherlands princess Amalia, firstborn of Willem-Alexander of Orange-Nassau and Maxima Zorreguita gets her first coin of silver of 5 euro, km 248. It was taken from a baby-picture, then a few months old. That is the youngest I believe so, because as Willem-Alexander dies, she will be crowned Queen.

Great Grandmother Wilhelmina was 12 years old when daddy William III died in 1892; her portrait is featured at 10 cents, 25 cents and guilders of holland 1892-1897.

True indeed it is a very interesting silver coin. And based on records this 1897 Alfonso XIII is the FIRST and LAST One peso silver coin of the Philippines bearing the name Islas Filipinas. One year after its 1897 mintage, Spanish rule in the Philippine Islands officially ended with the 1898 Treaty of Paris, wherein Spain ceded the Philippines and other territories to the United States. Thus making this Un Peso circulation shortlived with full historic background.

Actually his father, Alfonso XII, died when the boy was 6 months and a week old.

That's a nice coin. I think the detail of the coat-of-arms on the back is a great feature.

Excellent! and nice pictures. I don't know how to include quote in this forum :'(

Hi Archraz:

Interesting coin, specially the toning. Do you have any theories how the coin ended with dark toning in the reserved areas and almost wiped clean in the high points.

I have seen these in many french silver coins, where the face of the monarch is almost polished white dull, and it has dark toning elsewhere in the coin?