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This type was struck at the Philadelphia mint for [[Cuba]] in 1915-16, 1920 and 1938. There is also a brass five centavos from 1943 (KM 11.3a). Two dates were struck in the fifties using the portrait of hero José Marti (KM 26, KM 30). Castro-era issues (KM 33, 1963-88) are aluminum. None are rare altho they can be expensive in high grade.
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This type was struck at the Philadelphia mint for [[Cuba]] in 1915-16, 1920 and 1938. There is also a brass five centavos from 1943 (KM 11.3a). Two dates were struck in the fifties using the portrait of hero José Martí (KM 26, KM 30). Castro-era issues (KM 33, 1963-88) are aluminum. None are rare altho they can be expensive in high grade.
  
 
''Recorded mintage:'' 2,000,000.
 
''Recorded mintage:'' 2,000,000.

Latest revision as of 08:50, 4 November 2024

from the Mountain Groan Collection
Cuba 1938 centavo rev DSLR.jpg

This type was struck at the Philadelphia mint for Cuba in 1915-16, 1920 and 1938. There is also a brass five centavos from 1943 (KM 11.3a). Two dates were struck in the fifties using the portrait of hero José Martí (KM 26, KM 30). Castro-era issues (KM 33, 1963-88) are aluminum. None are rare altho they can be expensive in high grade.

Recorded mintage: 2,000,000.

Specification: copper-nickel, 2.5 g, 17 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM 9.1.

Source:

  • 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.

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