5 Gramos

Features

Issuer Tierra del Fuego (Argentine provinces)
Period Subprefecture (1884-1943)
Type Standard circulation coin
Year 1889
Currency Gramo (1889)
Composition Gold (.864) (Au 864 Ag 132)
Weight 5 g
Diameter 17 mm
Shape Round
Orientation Coin alignment ↑↓
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
91228
References KM# Tn6,
Tracy L. Schmidt (editor); 2019. Standard Catalog of World Coins / 2001-Date (14th edition). Krause Publications, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, United States.
And 5 more volumes.
CJ# 2
Héctor Carlos Janson; 2020. La moneda circulante en el territorio argentino, 1574-2019 (3rd edition). Héctor Carlos Janson, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Obverse

POPPER above date flanked by stars

Lettering:
TIERRA DEL FUEGO
* 1889 *
POPPER

Reverse

Denomination and legend

Lettering:
LAVADEROS DE ORO DEL SUD
5 GRAMOS

Edge

Smooth

Mint

El Páramo, Argentina (1889)

Comments

Minting of "El Paramo"
known specimens:
Mitre Museum - Buenos Aires
Emilio Paoletti - Rubén Gancedo - Buenos Aires
Louis E. Eliasberg

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1889 

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