5 Pesos 25th Anniversary of the South Atlantic War

Argentina's 1982 conflict with Britain over the Malvinas lasted 74 days and ended in military surrender, but its political afterlife proved considerably longer. The junta that launched the invasion collapsed within months; the war accelerated the return to civilian rule under Alfonsín by late 1983. Commemorating a lost war in gold is an unusual institutional choice, and Argentina has done it more than once with this conflict.

Issued by the Casa de Moneda under the Kirchner administration, whose political rhetoric around Malvinas sovereignty was particularly active throughout the 2000s.