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1 Sol Provincias del Rio de la Plata
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Potosí |
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| Year | 1815 |
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| Value | 1 Sol |
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| Reverse description | Central shield of the Provincias del Río de la Plata, depicting a Phrygian cap atop a pike above clasped hands, set against a horizontally striped oval field, all enclosed within a laurel and oak wreath tied at the base with a ribbon bow. The denomination mark 'S' appears to the right of the shield, and the assayer and mint initials flank the date. The circumferential legend EN UNION Y LIBERTAD runs around the upper border, with the date 1815 and mint and assayer marks appearing in the lower field below the wreath. |
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| Reverse lettering | EN UNION Y LIBERTAD · TS · F · 1815 · |
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Potosí had been minting silver under Spanish colonial authority for over two and a half centuries when the independence movement forced a peculiar administrative situation: the mint changed hands multiple times between royalist and patriot forces between 1810 and 1825. This 1815 issue was struck under royalist control, yet bears republican iconography — a consequence of the patriots having introduced new dies the previous year before losing the city back to crown forces, who continued using the existing equipment.
The .896 fineness reflects a deliberate reduction from colonial-era standards, a compromise driven by wartime silver supply disruptions in the Andean mining sector.