Argentina 1881 peso
This specimen was lot 6358 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2022), where it sold for $960. The catalog description[1] noted, "ARGENTINA. Peso, 1881. Buenos Aires Mint. PCGS AU-58. Just the second time we have offered this SCARCE first year type. This is also the finest certified by PCGS. Mostly covered with a pleasing gray patina, the protected areas still show a good amount of original brilliance. This example is sure to excited spirted bidding." This specimen is one of a type struck 1881-83 for Argentina in its national mint, the Casa de Moneda, which was inaugurated in 1880. The type is not common but available for a price. It is accompanied by a silver ten centavos, twenty centavos and fifty centavos. When production of the fifty centavos resumed in 1957, it was as a nickel coin, though Oudiné's Libertad was retained.
Recorded mintage: 62,000.
Specification: 25 g, 0.900 fine silver.
Catalog reference: KM-29.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- Elizondo, Carlos A., Eight Reales and Pesos of the New World, San Antonio, TX: 1968.
- Cunietti-Ferrando, Arnaldo José, Monedas de la República Argentina, Asociación Numismática Argentina, Buenos Aires, 1965.
- Janson, Hector Carlos, La Moneda Circulante En El Territorio Argentino, 1767-1998, Buenos Aires, 1998.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The 2022 NYINC Sale: World and Ancient Coins, featuring the Mark and Lottie Salton Collection and the Pat Johnson Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.
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