Ecuador 1930 2 sucres
After a period of striking reales, pesos and escudos which must be regarded as a 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. By 1928, successive devaluations had reduced the sucre from 25 grams of silver to five. This two sucres was minted in Philadelphia and again in 1930. An issue from Mexico City in 1944 was the last silver two sucres. The type is not common but reasonably available in circulated condition. The 1928 issue included one, 2½, five, ten and fifty centavos and one and two sucres. The 1930 issue included a fifty centavos
Recorded mintage: 100,000.
Specification: 10 g, 0.720 fine silver, .231 troy oz ASW.
Catalog reference: KM 73.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
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