20 Centavos

Features

Issuer	Argentina
Period	Federal Republic (1861-date)
Type	Standard circulation coin
Years	1942-1950
Value	20 Centavos (0.20 ARM)
Currency	Peso moneda nacional (1881-1969)
Composition	Aluminium bronze (Cu 92 Al 8)
Weight	4 g
Diameter	21 mm
Thickness	1.78 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Coin alignment ↑↓
Demonetized	1 January 1951
Number	N# 1281
References	KM# 42, Tracy L. Schmidt (editor); 2019. Standard Catalog of World Coins / 2001-Date (14th edition). Krause Publications, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, United States. And 5 more volumes. CJ# 196 to 204, Héctor Carlos Janson; 2020. La moneda circulante en el territorio argentino, 1574-2019 (3rd edition). Héctor Carlos Janson, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Schön# 45 Gerhard Schön; 2022. Weltmünzkatalog / 20. Jahrhundert: 1901-2000 (47. Auflage). Battenberg Gietl Verlag, Regenstauf, Germany. And 2 more volumes.

Obverse

Value in the centre, grain sprig to left, head of a cow to the right

Script: Latin

Lettering:
REPUBLICA ARGENTINA
20
CENTAVOS

Translation:
Republic of Argentina
20
Centavos

Engraver: Lucien Georges Bazor

Lucien Georges Bazor was Chief Engraver at the Paris mint from 1930 to 1958. He was born in Paris in 1889 and initially studied under his father, Albert Bazor. Bazor later became the pupil of Patey at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. He won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1923 for his engraving.

Reverse

Symbolic effigy of Liberty with a Phrygian cap, on the left side
a branch and on the right the legend "LIBERTAD", in the exergue, the date.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
LIBERTAD
1944

Translation:
Liberty
1944

Engraver: Lucien Georges Bazor

Lucien Georges Bazor was Chief Engraver at the Paris mint from 1930 to 1958. He was born in Paris in 1889 and initially studied under his father, Albert Bazor. Bazor later became the pupil of Patey at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. He won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1923 for his engraving.

Edge

Reeded

Mint

Comments

Previously KM#17

See also

• Cow or bovine
• Phrygian cap

• 5 Centavos
• 10 Centavos

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