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8 Reales Provincias del Rio de la Plata
| Issuer | Argentina |
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| Year | 1815 |
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| Diameter | 40 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | PTS Potosi, Bolivia (1572-1953) |
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The Provincias del Río de la Plata declared independence in July 1816, but this coin precedes that moment — struck at Potosí in 1815 while the revolutionary government still nominally operated under the fiction of Ferdinand VII's sovereignty. The shift to issuing coinage in the name of the Provincias rather than the Spanish crown was itself a political act, one the royalist forces still occupying parts of the region could not ignore.
Potosí would change hands multiple times during the independence wars, and dies prepared in one political moment were sometimes used under entirely different authority.