Ecuador 1909-H 1/2 centavo
After a period of striking reales, pesos and escudos which must be regarded as failure, Ecuador ceased minting coins in 1862. In 1884, the government tried again, this time with coinage produced on contract by the Heaton mint in Birmingham, England. A new currency conforming to the Latin Monetary Union was introduced, the sucre, with its division the centavo. Silver medio decimos (= five centavos) were produced at Heaton 1884-86 and 1915, and at Lima, Peru, 1893-1912. This copper-nickel half centavo was contracted from the Heaton mint in 1909 along with similar one, two and five centavos. This denomination was not issued again and is quite scarce for such a substantial mintage.
Recorded mintage: 4,000,000.
Specification: copper-nickel.
Catalog reference: KM 57.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
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