Paraguay 1870 1 centesimo

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from the Acanthite collection
from the Acanthite collection
Steve Album sale 51, lot 1279

The second specimen was lot 1279 in Steve Album Auction 51 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2025), where it sold for $264. The catalog description[1] noted, "PARAGUAY: Republic, AE centesimo, Heaton, 1870, nearly full mint red, struck at the Heaton Mint, Birmingham, a superb specimen strike! PCGS graded Specimen 65RB, ex Almer H. Orr III Collection." This copper one centesimo was struck for Paraguay in 1870 along with two and four centésimos. This year was the first of locally minted coinage after the War of the Triple Alliance (1864-1870), during which cut and countermarked foreign coins were the norm.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 5 g, copper, 25 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM 2.

Source:

  • Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
  • [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 51, featuring the Howard Daniel III Collection of Asian Coins, the Almer H. Orr III Collection of World Coins and the Joe Sedillot Collection of German Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.

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