Ecuador 2000 5 centavos

from the Acanthite collection

from the Acanthite collection

from the Mountain Groan Collection

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. By 1959 successive devaluations had reduced the sucre from 25 grams of silver to copper-nickel. This five centavos was struck this year only but is common. The portrait obverse is of Juan Montalvo.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: steel, 5.0g.

Catalog reference: KM 105.

Source:

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

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• 2000 10 centavos
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• 2000 50 centavos
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