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8 Escudos
| Issuer | La Rioja |
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| Year | 1840 |
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| Diameter | 34 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays the Argentine coat of arms within an oval cartouche, featuring a radiant Sun of May above and a Phrygian cap on a pike at center, flanked by laurel and olive branches tied at the base. The shield is encircled by a wreath of laurel branches. Two spears and a staff bearing a liberty cap flank the shield on either side. The peripheral legend reads · EN UNION Y LIBERTAD · in raised Latin capitals, separated by dot stops, within a beaded border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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La Rioja, one of the fractious Argentine interior provinces, struck its own gold coinage during a period when no national monetary authority existed to prevent it. The 1840 issue falls squarely within the chaos of the Rosas era, when provincial autonomy was asserted as much through currency as through arms. Córdoba, Entre Ríos, and La Rioja each produced independent gold emissions with little coordination on fineness or weight standards.
The Farouk reference (Fr#9) places this among the rarest provincial Argentine golds tracked in international auction records.