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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 8247028, member: 110226&quot;]Peru, in an alliance with Bolivia, engaged in a war with Chile over Chile&#039;s claim of Bolivia&#039;s coastal territory in the Atacama Desert.&nbsp; The War of the Pacific, which ran from 1879 to 1883, ended badly for Peru and Bolivia, with Peru ceding Tarapacá Province to Chile in 1883.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin was struck in 1882, in Ayacucho, Peru.&nbsp; At this point of the war Lima was occupied by Chilean forces.&nbsp; The provisional government in Lima struck 5 pesetas modeled along the design of the Lima issue of 1880.&nbsp; The date 1882 is quite rare, exceeded only by 1881.</p><p><br /></p><p>The modeling of the obverse is quite remarkable, and is , I think, arguably one of the more more attractive designs of the 19th century Latin American coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>KM 201.3</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1452401[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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