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8 Reales
| Issuer | Province of Córdoba |
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| Year | 1852 |
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| Weight | 27 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field features a radiant sun with alternating straight and wavy rays emanating from a small human-faced solar disk, a symbolic motif associated with the Argentine confederate provinces. The peripheral legend reads CONFEDERADA, arcing across the upper field, with the denomination 8 Rs. to the lower left, the fineness indicator 9. Ds. to the lower right, and the date 1852 at the base, all separated by raised dot stops. The reeded border surrounds the entire design. |
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Córdoba's provincial coinage of the 1850s emerged from a period of acute political fragmentation in Argentina, when individual provinces retained monetary authority in the absence of a unified national system. The 1852 date carries particular weight: it is the year Rosas fell at Caseros, fundamentally reshaping the power dynamics between Buenos Aires and the interior provinces, Córdoba among them.
The .750 fineness is notably debased relative to the old colonial standard, reflecting the fiscal strain common to interior provinces largely cut off from Atlantic trade revenue.