Argentina 1885 2 centavos
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This specimen was lot 3086 in Steve Album Auction 54 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2026), where it sold for $390. The catalog description[1] noted, "ARGENTINA: Republic, AE 2 centavos, 1885, a wonderful example, PCGS graded MS64 RB." This specimen is one of a type struck 1882-96 for Argentina, most likely at the Paris mint. The type is common but nice uncirculated specimens are undervalued. It is accompanied by a bronze centavo, a silver ten centavos, twenty centavos, fifty centavos and peso. The two centavos was terminated in 1896 and not resumed until 1939.
Recorded mintage: 3,065,000.
Specification: 10 g, bronze, 30 mm diameter, plain edge.
Catalog reference: KM-33.
- Cunietti-Ferrando, Arnaldo José, Monedas de la República Argentina, Asociación Numismática Argentina, Buenos Aires, 1965.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- Janson, Hector Carlos, La Moneda Circulante En El Territorio Argentino, 1574-2015, Buenos Aires, 2015.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Hanbing Feng, Auction 54, featuring selections from the Kenneth A. Bovenkamp Collection of Ottoman Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2025.
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