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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gallienus, post: 1937307, member: 42034&quot;]Okay, here’s the companion piece for the 1840 Unitarian Peso [see my comment this thread, May 30th].&nbsp; The Unitarians and the Federalists were engaged in a decade+ long Civil War in Argentina from 1829 until at least 1840.&nbsp; Rosas was the head of the Federalists and a typically nasty dictator.&nbsp; This is an 8 reales or 8 soles but was only slabbed “AU details” due to a light old cleaning. </p><p><img src="http://www.coinsandhistory.com/pix_coin/Arg_8R_1836_both_own-photo_corrected.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</p><p><br /></p><p>Another dictator:&nbsp; this is the much more common Bolivian&nbsp; 1-Melgarejo piece but uncommon in this grade: NGC-63, no hairlines or cleaning.</p><p><img src="http://www.coinsandhistory.com/pix_coin/Bol_1M_1865_mill_both_med.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</p><p><br /></p><p>I love these “dictatorial coins” but they’re apparently unpopular since they’re not particularly expensive (IMO) for the rarity.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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