Owner Comments:
Argentina is a tough country to get a nice coin from for 1916. They only struck 3 kinds of coins, all copper nickel: 20 Centavos, 10 Centavos (This), and 5 Centavos. They all look the same with the capped head of liberty with flowing hair on the obverse, and the wreathed number of Centavos on the back.
This coin looks great considering the competition. There are none of this denomination graded by NGC details or otherwise. PCGS has graded one in AU58. The mintage for 1916 was 835,000. That's the second lowest in the series from 1896 to 1942.
I have the only 20 Centavos graded by NGC or PCGS: "NGC VF Cleaned." It isn't pretty. There were
The 5 Centavos was struck the most in 1916 of the three, at 1.3+ million.
Argentina and Brazil in 1916 struck no silver or gold coins. Chile's silver coins were abundant but only 0.450 fine.
Meanwhile Peru cranked out so many .900 silver coins they are cheap in mint state today.
Why was the country named after Silver, with a Rio de Plata, minting just copper nickel coins in 1916?