I was yakking with my Italian friends and remembered this thread. Thought this was a good-looking coin, from an out-of-the-ordinary year in the “Pyramid” series.
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Production of the 20-centavo coin stopped after the 1946 issue, and did not resume until 1951. Here’s a 1951 I found among my duplicates. I was surprised by its high catalog value in grades like this—evidence that there was a real need for these coins by ’51.
No sitting around in bank vaults for these guys…most all of them went straight to work.
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