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1 Escudo
| Issuer | Republic of North Peru |
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| Year | 1838 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by the quartered coat of arms of North Peru, flanked on either side by a flagged staff, with a laurel wreath surmounting the shield at the top. The arms display a vicuna, a cinchona tree, and a cornucopia in the three quarters. The circumferential legend, reading clockwise, incorporates the state name, mint mark, assayer initials, denomination indicator, and date, all separated by raised dots. The coin exhibits a milled border of fine denticles running along the rim. |
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| Mintage | 1838 M |
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The Republic of North Peru was a short-lived state that existed from 1836 to 1839, created when Andrés de Santa Cruz's Peru-Bolivian Confederation fractured the existing Peruvian republic in two. This gold escudo was struck during that fleeting political experiment, which collapsed entirely after Santa Cruz's defeat at the Battle of Yungay in January 1839. The issuing authority ceased to exist within months of this coin's production.