1/4 Real

Córdoba's fractional silver issues of this period were struck under provincial authority during the decades following Argentine independence, when no unified national coinage existed and each province improvised its own monetary solutions. The tiny flans were notoriously difficult to strike evenly at this weight, and the series encompasses a wide range of die marriages documented across the CJ references — the spread from CJ#5 through CJ#30 reflects ongoing die replacement rather than distinct design changes. Provincial mints of this era worked with rudimentary equipment, and planchet quality varied considerably from one emission to the next.