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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gallienus, post: 4459185, member: 42034&quot;]Oh, no: the numbers are collapsing! I should program a forum thread on my <a href="https://CoinsandHistory.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://CoinsandHistory.com" rel="nofollow">CoinsandHistory</a> website. Here, I&#039;ll post a somewhat less common portrait coin which shows one of my favorite areas -- Latin American dictators!&nbsp; Not to worry tho, I&#039;ve plenty of these fellas.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://coinsandhistory.com/pix_shared/pix_cointalk/Arg_8R_1836_obv_med.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="https://coinsandhistory.com/pix_shared/pix_cointalk/Arg_8R_1836_rev_med.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>This is an 8 soles sized coin (e.g. 8 reales size) of Manuel Rosas &quot;Tyrant of the Argentines&quot; who ruled there as an absolute dictator.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rosas became &quot;governor&quot; of Buenos Aires (the capital &amp; main city /province of Argentina) in 1829 following the official surrender of the city to him. After he became entrenched in power he had his generals under him executed so as not to pose a threat to his rule. </p><p><br /></p><p>Like many dictators he started out popular at first then became increasingly paranoid and suspicious of plots. He put down a major insurrection to by The Unitarians to establish an Argentine Republic.&nbsp; In fact the Unitarians issued their own coin: proclaiming the Republic in 1840.&nbsp; When Rosas won he had the Unitarian coins destroyed.&nbsp; Today there are about 20 surviving Unitarian Pesos.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rosas was forced to leave the country in 1852 and fled to England where he lived until his death.&nbsp; The above Rosas piece is now thought to be a silver die trial for his 8 eScudos gold coin of the same design.&nbsp; I think there are about 5-6 pieces of this silver coin extentent and perhaps about 10 of the gold coins.&nbsp; Another one of these was auctioned in the Milennia Sale (Goldberg&#039;s, 2008) and had a higher slab grade despite having less detail &amp; unnatural surfaces.&nbsp; I had the fortune to view both and thought this one superior even tho it was graded &quot;AU details&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; </p><p><img src="https://coinsandhistory.com/pix_shared/pix_cointalk/Arg_8R_1840_LaRoija_both_med_JE.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>The 1840 Unitarian or &quot;Rebel Peso&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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