1 Centavo

Argentina's centavo coinage of this period was minted under severe fiscal pressure — the country was in the early stages of the debt-fueled expansion that would culminate in the Baring Crisis of 1890, when the near-collapse of Baring Brothers bank triggered a currency collapse and forced a suspension of gold convertibility. Bronze fractional coinage continued circulating long after higher denominations became unreliable. Several dates in this run were struck at the Casa de Moneda de Buenos Aires with documented die-link variations recorded across the CJ reference numbers, making date-by-date attribution more consequential than the type designation suggests.