5 Centavos

Features

Issuer	Argentina
Period	Federal Republic (1861-date)
Type	Standard circulation coin
Years	1942-1950
Value	5 Centavos (0.05 ARM)
Currency	Peso moneda nacional (1881-1969)
Composition	Aluminium-bronze (Cu 92 Al 8)
Weight	2 g
Diameter	17 mm
Thickness	1.3 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Coin alignment ↑↓
Demonetized	1 January 1951
Number	N# 3241
References	KM# 40, 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# 214 to 222, Héctor Carlos Janson; 2020. La moneda circulante en el territorio argentino, 1574-2019 (3rd edition). Héctor Carlos Janson, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Schön# 43 Gerhard Schön; 2022. Weltmünzkatalog / 20. Jahrhundert: 1901-2000 (47. Auflage). Battenberg Gietl Verlag, Regenstauf, Germany. And 2 more volumes.

Obverse

Value flanked by Ear and Bull's Head

Script: Latin

Lettering:
REPÚBLICA ARGENTINA
5
CENTAVOS

Translation:
Republic of Argentina
5
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
1948

Translation:
Liberty
1948

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

© Cyrillius

Mint

Comments

Previously KM#15

See also

• Cow or bovine
• Phrygian cap

• 10 Centavos
• 20 Centavos

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