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Carcel Pública - Buenos Aires
| Location | Argentina |
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| Year | 1872 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Obverse description | Central relief depicts a winged allegorical figure of Justice standing full-length, blindfolded, holding scales in her raised right hand and a sword in her left, set on a small plinth within a raised inner circle. The legend is divided above and below the central device, flanked by two small six-pointed stars. |
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| Obverse lettering | CARCEL PUBLICA BUENOS-AIRES |
| Reverse description | Plain field bearing six lines of incuse text naming the Governor and the Board of Directors responsible for the public prison project, dated 1872, all within a raised inner circle. The surrounding border legend reads the founding law date along the upper arc and the architect's name along the lower arc, flanked by two small stars. |
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