Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Centavo
| Issuer | Argentina |
|---|---|
| Year | 1983 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 1 Centavo (0.01 ARP) |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Left-facing draped bust of Liberty wearing a Phrygian cap, executed in the neoclassical style after the engraver Oudiné. The effigy is rendered in low relief at the center of the field. The circular legend REPUBLICA ARGENTINA arcs along the lower periphery of the coin. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | 1983 - - 19,959,318 |
| Additional information |
Argentina's peso moneda nacional had been losing value for decades, but by 1983 inflation was running above 400% annually and the military junta that had governed since 1976 was collapsing under the weight of the Falklands defeat and internal dissent. Aluminium centavo coins of this period were essentially obsolete the moment they left the mint — purchasing power had evaporated long before the dies wore out. Democratic elections in October 1983 brought Raúl Alfonsín to power, and within two years the entire peso moneda nacional system was scrapped in favor of the austral.