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1 Centavo Pattern
| Issuer | Argentina |
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| Year | 1938 |
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| Value | 1 Centavo (0.01 ARM) |
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| Obverse description | The Argentine national coat of arms occupies the central field, depicting an oval cartouche charged with a Phrygian cap atop a staff, flanked by laurel branches tied at the base with a ribbon, and surmounted by a radiant rising sun. The legend REPUBLICA ARGENTINA curves along the upper periphery in raised Latin characters, while the date 1938 appears in the lower field between two five-pointed stars. The entire design is contained within a beaded border. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Pattern coinage from Argentina in this period was driven largely by ongoing debates over metal allocation, with the government weighing copper against aluminum and other alternatives as the country sought to modernize its fractional currency. KM#Pn50 represents one of several trial strikes tested before the eventual redesign of Argentina's minor coinage in the early 1940s. Patterns of this type rarely escaped the mint in quantity.
Copper was ultimately abandoned for the centavo denomination in favor of cheaper alloys as wartime supply pressures tightened across South America through the early 1940s.