Argentina 1883 50 centavos

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from the Stack's Bowers 2022 NYINC sale, lot 6360
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This specimen was lot 6360 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2022), where it sold for $144. The catalog description[1] noted, "ARGENTINA. 50 Centavos, 1883. PCGS AU-58. A well struck example with molten gray surfaces and speckled toning throughout." This specimen is one of a type struck 1881-83 for Argentina, most likely at the Paris mint. The type is common. It is accompanied by a silver ten centavos, twenty centavos and peso. When production of the fifty centavos resumed in 1941, it was as a nickel coin, though Oudiné's Libertad was retained.

Recorded mintage: 2,273,000.

Specification: 12.50 g, 0.900 fine silver, 30.10 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM-28.

Source:

  • Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
  • 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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