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4 Reales
| Issuer | Province of Córdoba |
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| Year | 1850 |
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| Currency | Real (1833-1854) |
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| Obverse lettering | PROVINCIA DE CORDOBA |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Córdoba's provincial coinage persisted well into the mid-nineteenth century precisely because Argentina's monetary unification repeatedly stalled — the 1826 Banco Nacional collapse had gutted any credible central authority, leaving interior provinces to fund their own fiscal needs through local mints. By 1850, Córdoba was operating under a political arrangement that kept it effectively autonomous from Buenos Aires on financial matters.
The .750 fineness is notably below the colonial standard, a deliberate debasement reflecting the chronic silver shortages that plagued interior provincial mints throughout this period.