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4 Reales
| Issuer | Córdoba Province |
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| Year | 1852 |
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| Value | 4 Reales |
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| Obverse lettering | PROVINCIA DE CORDOBA |
| Reverse description | Central field features a radiant Sol de Mayo — a stylized face of the sun surrounded by alternating straight and wavy rays radiating to the periphery, rendered in high relief. The circumferential legend reads . CONFEDERADA . with the denomination 4 Rs and fineness 9 Ds flanking the lower portion, and the date 1852 prominently displayed at the bottom of the coin, all in bold Latin lettering. A toothed border frames the design. |
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Córdoba's provincial coinage of the early 1850s was issued under the fractured monetary conditions that plagued the Argentine Confederation following Rosas's defeat at Caseros in February 1852. Individual provinces retained the right to coin money, and Córdoba exercised that right aggressively — producing silver of notoriously inconsistent fineness that circulated alongside foreign specie and Buenos Aires issues in an economy with no unified standard. The .750 fineness here is below what most contemporary Spanish-tradition coinages claimed, a concession to provincial silver supplies.