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1 Real
| Issuer | Mendoza |
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| Year | 1823 |
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| Value | 1 Real |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A bold cross of Jerusalem divides the field into four quarters, each containing alternating heraldic devices: castles of Castile and lions of León, following the traditional Spanish colonial quartered shield arrangement. The cross is rendered in high relief with squared terminals. The flan is irregular and the strike is typical of hand-hammered cob-style coinage, with weak areas at the periphery common to provincial issues of Mendoza. |
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Mendoza struck its own coinage briefly in the early 1820s under provincial authority, before the centralization of Argentine monetary affairs made such issues politically untenable. The 1823 date places this piece in the years immediately following independence, when the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata existed more as a loose confederation than a functioning state, and individual provinces filled the vacuum with their own silver.
Calicó 1159 is among the scarcer provincial references in the series.