Argentina 1888 centavo
The first specimen was lot 71144 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, May 2023), where it sold for $360. The catalog description[1] noted, "ARGENTINA. Centavo, 1888. PCGS MS-64 Red Brown. Boasting delightful and consistent bronze-red surfaces that are likely just one shade darker than required for a Red designation, this Centavo is appealing and enticing for the grade. Generous satin luster sweeps across the flan, uninterrupted by marks or nicks. A stalwart piece that will tempt series specialists." This specimen is one of a type struck 1882-96 for Argentina, at the Paris mint or in Buenos Aires with French dies. The type is common but nice uncirculated specimens are undervalued. It is accompanied by a bronze two centavos, a silver ten centavos, twenty centavos, fifty centavos and peso. The one centavo was not struck again until 1939.
Recorded mintage: 413,000, a slightly better date.
Specification: 5 g, bronze, 25 mm diameter, plain edge, designed by Eugéne-André Oudiné (1810-1887).
Catalog reference: KM 32.
- 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]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, May 2023 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, Featuring the Richard Elliott Collection of Hooknecks, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2023.
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