Ecuador 1924-H 5 centavos
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File:Ecuador 1924 5 centavos obv 600.jpg
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 1924, successive devaluations had reduced the sucre from 25 grams of silver to five. This five centavos was minted in Birmingham and again in 1928. Five centavos were issued irregularly until 1970. This coin is very common in circulated condition.
Recorded mintage: 10,000,000.
Specification: copper-nickel.
Catalog reference: KM 65.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
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