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1 Peso Unicef
| Issuer | Argentina |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Engraver(s) | Carlos Pedro Rodríguez Dufour |
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| Reverse description | The aluminium-bronze centre features a large numeral '1' dominating the left field, beside which the UNICEF emblem — a stylised globe surmounted by a laurel wreath and flanked by the silhouettes of a mother and child — is depicted in the right field, with the founding and commemorative dates 1946–1996 inscribed above. The denomination PESO appears in the exergue of the centre. The copper-nickel outer ring bears the commemorative legend UNICEF CINCUENTA AÑOS CON LOS NIÑOS arcing across the upper portion, the year 1996 at the base, and a series of small decorative motifs representing children's activities spaced around the ring. |
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| Reverse lettering | UNICEF CINCUENTA AÑOS CON LOS NIÑOS 1946-1996 1 PESO 1996 (Translation: UNICEF FIFTY YEARS WITH CHILDREN 1946-1996 1 PESO 1996) |
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Argentina struck this issue specifically to mark the 50th anniversary of UNICEF, part of a broader wave of commemorative circulation coinage the country produced through the mid-1990s despite ongoing monetary instability following the Convertibility Plan of 1991, which had pegged the peso to the dollar. The bimetallic format was relatively new to Argentine coinage at the time, adopted in part to complicate counterfeiting of higher-denomination circulation pieces.