Cuba 1939 peso

from the Stack's Bowers 2017 ANA sale, lot 22204

This specimen was lot 22204 in Stack's Bowers ANA Auction (Denver, CO, August 2017), where it sold for $282. The catalog description^[1] noted, "CUBA. ABC Peso, 1939. NGC MS-63. Good strike with attractive luster." The type was struck in the United States for Cuba 1934-39 using silver dollar blanks. Most were held in government vaults as backing for paper currency and later melted; the original mintage has little bearing on the number of survivors.

Recorded mintage: 9,200,000.

Specification: 26.73 g, 0.900 fine silver, .773 troy oz AGW.

Catalog reference: KM-22.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• ^[1]Ponterio, Richard, Kyle Ponterio and Chris Chatigny, The August 2017 Denver ANA Auction: Ancients, Selections from The Richard Stuart Collection & World Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2017.

Link to:

• 1938 peso
• 1938 centavo
• 1952 10 centavos
• 1953 peso
• Coins and currency dated 1939
• return to coins of Cuba