Ecuador 1930 sucre
This specimen was lot 76730 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for $65. The catalog description[1] noted, "ECUADOR. Sucre, 1930. Philadelphia Mint. PCGS MS-63." 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 is the scarcest of the three dates (1928, 1930 and 1934).
Recorded mintage: 400,000.
Specification: 5 g, 0.720 fine silver, 23.5 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-72.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, February 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction - Ancients, World Coins & World Paper Money, David B. Simpson Medals & World Coins Part 1, Selections from the Richard Margolis Collection, and Selections from the L. E. Bruun Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.
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