Argentina 1899 10 centavos

photo courtesy Daniel F. Sedwick, LLC

This specimen was lot 999 in Sedwick sale 10 (Winter Park, FL, October 2011), where it sold for $115. The catalog description^[1] noted, "Argentina, copper-nickel 10 centavos, 1899 encapsulated NGC MS 62. Lustrous and very lightly rainbow-toned." This type was struck in large numbers 1896-1942 but is hard to find choice. It is accompanied by similar five and twenty centavos coins. The last ten centavos piece was struck in 1959.

Recorded mintage: 8,889,000.

Specification: 3 g, copper-nickel, 19.3 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: Janson 93.1; KM 35.

Sources:

• 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, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• Janson, Hector Carlos, La Moneda Circulante En El Territorio Argentino, 1767-1998, Buenos Aires, 1998.
• ^[1]Sedwick, Daniel F., Augi Garcia and Cori Sedwick Downing, Treasure Auction #10, Winter Park, FL: Daniel Frank Sedwick, LLC, 2011.

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• 1899 20 centavos
• 1904 5 centavos
• 1906 10 centavos
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