1 Centavo

Argentina's centavo coinage of this period was struck under the conservative military-influenced governments that preceded the 1943 coup, a stretch of Argentine history known as the Década Infame — the Infamous Decade — characterized by electoral fraud and commodity-driven economic policy. Bronze was already a compromised choice by the late 1930s, and wartime copper supply pressures made procurement increasingly difficult as the series progressed into the early 1940s.

The 1944 date falls just after the June 1943 military coup that eventually brought Perón to prominence, though the centavo itself would be demonetized well before his presidency reshaped Argentine monetary policy entirely.