Catalog
5⁄10 Real
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Buenos Aires |
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| Year | 1827-1831 |
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| Diameter | 22.8 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears the two-line legend BUENOS AYRES above the date, all enclosed within an open wreath of olive or laurel branches tied at the base with a ribbon bow. The wreath springs from the lower centre and frames the inscriptions symmetrically. A small decorative floral or knotted device appears at the base of the wreath junction. The coin is bordered by a continuous raised bead or pellet rim. The overall design is plain and typographic, characteristic of early Argentine provincial copper coinage. |
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| Obverse lettering | BUENOS AYRES 1827 |
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The Banco Nacional de Buenos Aires was chartered in 1826 under Bernardino Rivadavia's reformist government, which collapsed the following year — yet the bank, and its copper fractional coinage, outlasted the administration by several years. These pieces filled a chronic small-change void in the Río de la Plata region, where silver coinage had been disrupted by a decade of independence wars and the ongoing conflict with Brazil over the Banda Oriental.
The four CJ varieties reflect successive die changes across the emission period, a detail that rewards attribution work on surviving examples.