Catalog
2 Reales
| Issuer | Tucuman Province |
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| Year | 1820-1821 |
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| Currency | Real (1820-1821) |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the denomination numeral '2' above the assayer and mint initials, with the date below, all arranged within the quadrants formed by a bold cross dividing the flan. The design follows the traditional Spanish colonial macuquina (cob) style, struck on an irregularly shaped planchet. The legend PROVINCIAS DEL RIO DE LA PLATA runs around the periphery. The strike is characteristic of hand-hammered provincial emergency coinage, resulting in variable legend and design completeness. |
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| Obverse lettering | PROVINCIAS DEL RIO DE LA PLATA 1820 (or 1821) |
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Tucumán's 2 Reales of 1820–1821 was struck during the most chaotic stretch of Argentine provincial history — the so-called "Year of Anarchy," when the central government dissolved entirely and at least twenty governors cycled through Buenos Aires in a single year. Tucumán, like several other interior provinces, effectively operated as an independent entity and issued its own coinage out of fiscal necessity rather than political ambition.
KM#1 designation confirms this as the province's inaugural coinage type. Surviving examples are scarce; the emission was short-lived and local circulation was hard on silver of this weight.