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5 Pesos Eva Peron
| Issuer | Banco Central de la República Argentina |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Weight | 8.064 g |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features a portrait effigy of María Eva Duarte de Perón (Evita), designed by Italian master engraver Renato Garrasi. The bust is rendered in high relief with fine detail characteristic of commemorative gold coinage. The upper arc bears the legend REPÚBLICA ARGENTINA, while the lower arc carries the inscription MARÍA EVA DUARTE DE PERÓN encircling the central portrait. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPÚBLICA ARGENTINA MARÍA EVA DUARTE DE PERÓN |
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Issued in 2002, this gold piece commemorates Eva Perón decades after her death in 1952 — a significant political act given that her image had been banned from public display by the military government that ousted Juan Perón in 1955. That prohibition lasted until the early 1970s. The coin was struck during Argentina's catastrophic peso crisis, when the country defaulted on $100 billion in sovereign debt and froze private bank accounts under the corralito restrictions. Gold coin production during a currency collapse carries its own irony.