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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Eidolon, post: 6529855, member: 102103&quot;]As you can probably guess, I&#039;ve been cataloging some of my old unsorted coinage today.&nbsp; These are both Peruvian &quot;Moneda Provisional&quot; coins from 1879.&nbsp; The 10 centavos I think was a junk bin find, and the 5 I bought packaged for $1.75 some time ago.&nbsp; These took me a moment to find in Krause.&nbsp; They were listed in a separate section under &quot;Provisional Coinage&quot;.&nbsp; Apparently Peru had monetary problems during their unsuccessful war with Chile in the War of the Pacific from 1879-1883.&nbsp; The 10 centavo I believe was a temporary replacement for the silver dinero (1863-77 and 1888-1916) and the 5 centavos for the 1/2 dinero (1863-4 and 1885-1917).&nbsp; I believe they were demonetized after the war, and a significant number of them survived, so they are not particularly valuable even in good condition. Oddly, alongside the copper-nickel provisional money, Peru continued to mint some silver sols during the same period throughout the war.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure how they expected silver and base metal coinage to circulate side-by-side during wartime with Gresham&#039;s Law being what it is.[ATTACH=full]1261242[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1261243[/ATTACH]</p><p>The sun on the obverse has a face in the center, making it obvious which orientation was meant to be &quot;up&quot;.&nbsp; Oddly, the dates are printed sideways, in the 3:00 position.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/trivia-the-provisional-coins-of-peru-during-the-5-year-bird-manure-war.137147/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/trivia-the-provisional-coins-of-peru-during-the-5-year-bird-manure-war.137147/">This</a> old cointalk thread (2010!) has some more details on the War of the Pacific/Guano War.&nbsp; And <a href="https://www.identificacion-numismatica.com/t5101-moneda-provisional-del-peru" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.identificacion-numismatica.com/t5101-moneda-provisional-del-peru" rel="nofollow">this thread</a> has some info in Spanish, though I was too lazy to do more than skim it.&nbsp; Of the provisional series, there was also a 20 centavos, but I don&#039;t have one.&nbsp; The 5 and 10 centavos were minted 1879-80, and the 20 in 1879 only.&nbsp; None of them look to be particularly scarce, so it would probably be an easy series to complete.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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