Cuba 1938 centavo

from the Mountain Groan Collection

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.

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.

Link to:

• 1938 peso
• 1943 centavo
• Coins and currency dated 1938
• return to coins of Cuba