Argentina 1889 centavo

from the Mountain Groan Collection

This specimen is one of a type struck 1882-96 for Argentina, at the Paris mint or in Buenos Aires with French dies. The type is common but nice uncirculated specimens are undervalued. It is accompanied by a bronze two centavos, a silver ten centavos, twenty centavos, fifty centavos and peso. The one centavo was not struck again until 1939.

Recorded mintage: 568,000, a somewhat better date.

Specification: 5 g, bronze, 25 mm diameter, plain edge, designed by Eugéne-André Oudiné (1810-1887).

Catalog reference: KM 32.

Source:

• Cunietti-Ferrando, Arnaldo José, Monedas de la República Argentina, Asociación Numismática Argentina, Buenos Aires, 1965.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• Janson, Hector Carlos, La Moneda Circulante En El Territorio Argentino, 1574-2015, Buenos Aires, 2015.

Link to:

• 1888 centavo
• 1888 2 centavos
• France 1889-A 5 centimes
• 1889 argentino
• 1894 centavo
• Coins and currency dated 1889