Ecuador 1942 10 centavos

from the Mountain Groan Collection

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. In 1942, the Philadelphia mint struck this type, made out of brass because of a wartime shortage of nickel, along with a twenty and five centavos.

Recorded mintage: 5,000,000.

Specification: brass.

Catalog reference: KM 76a.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.

Link to:

• 1937-HF 5 centavos
• 1937-HF 10 centavos
• 1942 20 centavos
• 1942 5 centavos
• 1943-Mo 5 sucres
• 1944-D 5 centavos
• Coins and currency dated 1942
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