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4 Reales
| Issuer | Province of Córdoba |
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| Year | 1847 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse lettering | PROVINCIA DE CORDOBA (Translation: Province of Córdoba.) |
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| Edge | Laureate |
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Córdoba's provincial coinage of the 1840s emerged from the fractured monetary reality of post-independence Argentina, where Buenos Aires controlled foreign trade revenue and interior provinces were left to fund themselves however they could. The Córdoba mint operated with inconsistent silver supplies, and the .750 fineness of this issue reflects a deliberate reduction from colonial-era standards — a practical compromise rather than a debasement by crisis.
The KM#24.3 designation distinguishes this from earlier die varieties in the same type; CJ references place it firmly within Cunietti-Ferrando's Argentine provincial classification, which remains the authoritative work for serious collectors of this series.