Argentina 1912 20 centavos
This specimen was lot 3697 in Stephen Album sale 38 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2020), where it sold for $59.50. The catalog description[1] noted, "ARGENTINA: Republic, 20 centavos, 1912, better date, lightly toned, NGC graded MS64." This specimen features Oudiné's portrait of liberty, used on the twenty centavos from 1896 to 1942, when the rising price of nickel forced the Argentine government to switch to aluminum bronze. It is accompanied by similar five and ten centavos coins. The last twenty centavos piece was struck in 1961. This type is very common in dealer junk boxes but is quite scarce in nice condition for a coin of such a low catalog value.
Recorded mintage: 2,042,000.
Specification: 4 g, copper-nickel, 21.5 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-36.
- 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, 1574-2015, Buenos Aires, 2015.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 38, featuring the Dabestani Collection of Persian Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2020.
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