5 Centavos Weight 5 g

These brass 5 centavos pieces were issued as Argentina's economy was collapsing under the peso argentino system — a currency itself introduced only in 1983 as a redenomination designed to shed four zeros from the inflationary wreckage of the previous peso. It didn't hold. By 1985, the Austral Plan replaced the peso argentino entirely, and coins like this one were rendered obsolete within months of the later dates leaving the mint.