Argentina 1894 centavo
The first specimen was lot 948 in Sedwick sale 34 (Winter Park, FL, November 2023), where it sold for $288. The catalog description[1] noted, "Argentina, copper 1 centavo, 1894, high and separate 4, NGC MS 63 Brown. Much original color and luster for Brown designation, highest points a little flat and with diagonal flaw on face but otherwise choice." 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: 532,000.
Specification: 5 g, bronze, 25 mm diameter, plain edge, designed by Eugéne-André Oudiné (1810-1887).
Catalog reference: Janson-49.3; KM-32.
- 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, 1574-2015, Buenos Aires, 2015.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Sedwick, Daniel Frank, Augi Garcia, Cori Sedwick Downing and Connor Falk, Treasure Auction 34, World, U.S Coins and Paper Money, Winter Park, FL: Daniel Frank Sedwick LLC, 2023.
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