Do you have World Cup 82 coins? The value of one of them has skyrocketed due to a manufacturing error
Barely 7 years after the end of the Franco dictatorship and with Spain making great efforts to open up to the international community, the 1982 World Cup presented itself as a great opportunity for the country to recover international prestige and open up to the world.. Those days Spain was looking forward to the World Cup event and although the sporting experience was not the best (Spain would fall in the second phase), the whole country turned to preparing for the World Cup.
Even in the smallest details, Spain wanted to prepare for its first major international event. So much so that the Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre (FNMT) launched peseta coins commemorating the event. Coins of 100 pesetas, 50, 25, 5, 1 and 50 cents with the portrait of Juan Carlos I and different inscriptions such as the national coat of arms, the inscription “España '82” or soccer balls.
41 years later, these commemorative coins have become a coveted item for numismatists, coin collectors. Their value, their circulation, the four decades since their issuance are factors that make them valuable.. Some, in fact, more than others.
The five pesetas coin, especially valuable
In this sense, the 5 pesetas World Cup coin is a 'rare bird' due to a manufacturing error. And it is that, although its reverse shows the correct value, the World Cup inscription and the year of minting (1980) on the reverse the portrait of King Juan Carlos I appears with the date of 1975.
This error has triggered the value of this coin (which was originally five pesetas, that is, about three current euro cents) to 400 euros, according to El Español.
This is the most valuable coin that thousands of Spaniards can still keep from that time, but whoever has these commemorative coins should know that they all have special value for collectors.. In fact, according to the specialized portal Foronum, the 100 pesetas coin can be paid for up to 27 euros, the 50 pesetas coin up to 16 euros and the 25 pesetas coin up to 22 euros, depending on the state of conservation.