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SPAIN: Carlos VII, Pretender, 1872-1876, AE 5 centimos, 1875, PCGS MS64 BN

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SPAIN: Carlos VII, Pretender, 1872-1876, AE 5 centimos, 1875, PCGS MS64 BN
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SPAIN: Carlos VII, Pretender, 1872-1876, AE 5 centimos, 1875, KM-669, Cal-10, coin alignment variety, struck at the Brussels mint, PCGS graded MS64 BN. Carlos VII was the senior member of the House of Bourbon from 1887 until his death. He was the Carlist claimant to the throne of Spain under from 1868 until 1909. This type circulated in the Basque Country and Navarre during the Third Carlist War.The Third Carlist War began in the aftermath of the deposition of one ruling monarch and the abdication of another. Queen Isabella II was overthrown by a conspiracy of liberal generals in 1868, and left Spain in some disgrace. The Cortes (Parliament) replaced her with Amadeo, the Duke of Aosta (and second son of King Victor Emmanuel of Italy). Then, when the Spanish elections of 1872 resulted in government violence against Carlist candidates and a swing away from Carlism, the Carlist pretender, Carlos VII, decided that only force of arms could win him the throne. Thus the Third Carlist War began; it lasted for four years, until 1876.