Philippines 1964 5 centavos
This specimen was lot 71471 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Santa Ana, CA, February 2020), where it sold for $552. The catalog description[1] noted, "PHILIPPINES. 5 Centavos, 1964. Manila Mint. PCGS SPECIMEN-66 Gold Shield. KM-187. Brilliant and unspotted. Ex: Kings Norton Mint Collection." Struck at the United States mint in 1958-66 for the Philippines. This type was accompanied by one, ten, twenty-five and fifty centavos which used the old commonwealth designs but were struck in base metal. Worn specimens fill dealer junk boxes but nice uncirculated examples are hard to find, being too cheap for dealers to stock. This type superseded the old copper-nickel five centavos of 1937-45.
Recorded mintage: 100,000,000.
Specification: 4.8 g, brass, 21 mm diameter, plain edge.
Catalog reference: KM 187.
- Altz, Charles G., and E. H. Barton, Foreign Coins Struck at United States Mints, Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing, 1965.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- Ganzon de Legarda, Angelita, Piloncitos to Pesos, A Brief History of Coinage in the Philippines, Manila: Bancom Development Corporation, 1976.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The February 2020 Collector's Choice sale: World and Ancient Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2020.
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