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1 Real
| Issuer | Santiago del Estero |
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| Year | 1836 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1836 |
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Santiago del Estero's autonomous provincial coinage of the 1830s emerged from the chaotic monetary vacuum left by Argentina's fractured post-independence politics, when interior provinces could not reliably access circulating specie and took matters into their own hands. Billon — the debased silver-copper alloy used here — was a pragmatic choice for a landlocked province with no mint tradition and limited metal resources. These provincial issues circulated alongside foreign coins, worn colonial reales, and outright counterfeits, with little public confidence in any of them.