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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3236982, member: 10461&quot;]<a href="https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/philippines-20-centavos-km-170-1907-1929-cuid-1112356-duid-1518519" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/philippines-20-centavos-km-170-1907-1929-cuid-1112356-duid-1518519" rel="nofollow">Here&#039;s the same page with yours highlighted.</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It bears the &quot;S&quot; mintmark of San Francisco (see the S below the dot to the left of the date?)</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1919-S 20 centavo had a relatively low mintage of 850,000, which is nice.&nbsp; Your coin only grades around VG8, though, so with a VF20 listing for $5.00 (the lowest price listed), yours is worth pretty much just the silver melt value ($1.38 as of this typing- see the page linked).</p><p><br /></p><p>I suppose you could arguably say it&#039;s worth a buck and a half to two bucks on a good day.&nbsp; So it&#039;s not particularly valuable in monetary terms, but still a neat old coin.&nbsp; I like these Philippine-American issues of the US sovereignty (pre-commonwealth) era.&nbsp; They&#039;re neat coins.&nbsp; And the 20c pieces are neat because they do not correspond in size to US denominations like the others do.</p><p><br /></p><p>With the other Philippine denominations, they correspond to the size of a US coin of the period:</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p>Centavo= <strike>cent sized</strike> [oops, no- those were bigger than US small cents]</p><p>5 centavos= nickel sized</p><p>10 centavos= dime sized</p><p>20 centavos= no US counterpart at the time</p><p>50 centavos= half dollar sized</p><p>Peso= silver dollar sized</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>So the Philippine 20-centavo coin was its own creature, if you know what I&#039;m saying.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do not recall offhand if they&#039;re the same diameter as the then-obsolete US 20c pieces of the 1870s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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