Cuba 1916 10 pesos

from the Mountain Groan Collection

This gold ten pesos was struck at the Philadelphia mint for Cuba during a brief sugar boom during World War I. The type was struck 1915-16 only to the weight standard of a United States ten dollar gold piece.

Recorded mintage: 1,168,010.

Specification: 16.718 g, 0.900 fine gold, .484 troy oz AGW, reeded edge.

Catalog reference: KM 20.

Source:

• Byrne, Ray, Coins and Tokens of the Caribees, Decatur, IL: Jess Peters, Inc., 1975.
• Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• Charles G. Altz, Foreign Coins Stuck At The United States Mint Whitman Publishing Co., 1965

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