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2 Centavos
| Issuer | Argentina |
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| Year | 1882-1896 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | The Argentine national coat of arms occupies the central field, depicting a handshake beneath a Phrygian cap on a pike, enclosed within an oval cartouche surmounted by a radiant rising sun. The arms are encircled by a wreath of laurel branches tied at the base, flanked by a pike and a national flag on each side. The arc legend REPUBLICA ARGENTINA curves along the upper periphery, with a small six-pointed star appearing at each lower flank of the inner beaded border. The date is positioned in the lower exergue between the beaded inner circle and the coin's rim, also bordered by a continuous beaded ring. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Argentina's bronze centavo series of the 1880s was issued under significant fiscal strain, as the country's aggressive foreign borrowing and land speculation were building toward the Baring Crisis of 1890 — a sovereign debt collapse that nearly took Baring Brothers of London down with it. The government's monetary house was badly disordered throughout much of this coin's production window.
KM#33 was struck at the Casa de Moneda de Buenos Aires. The series ran unusually long for a nation whose currency arrangements kept shifting beneath it.