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8 Escudos Pattern
| Issuer | La Rioja |
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| Year | 1836 |
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| Value | 8 Escudos (128) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Oblique reeded |
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La Rioja declared itself an autonomous province of the Argentine Confederation in 1820, and its brief experiment with gold coinage in the 1830s reflects the chaotic fiscal independence that characterized the interior provinces during the Rosas period. This 8 Escudos was never authorized for regular production — the pattern status places it among a handful of trial pieces struck to establish a provincial monetary standard that, in practice, never materialized.
Surviving examples are exceedingly rare, with most institutional holdings tracing back to a single dispersal.