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Ecuador - 1918 -5 Centavos - KM-60.2 - Mintage: 7,980,000

These coins were minted for the "Repuplica Del Ecuador" by the Philadelphia mint. These coins were only minted in 1917 and 1918, with the 1918 issue outnumbering the 1917 issue by nearly a factor of 7. Despite the significantly higher mintage, these coins circulated heavily and are nearly as difficult to acquire in mint state as the 1917. Although this coin IS uncirculated, NGC interpreted some die polishing lines on the reverse as hairlines and assigned it a details grade. I will be talking to them about this at a future numismatic event.

Update: I took this coin to the ANA show in 2016 and was assured that what I interpreted as die polishing lines are actually hairlines. So it goes...

Date acquired: 6/20/2006 (raw coin)
Date graded: 10/28/2015 (self submitted to NGC)

Rev. 12/19/2018