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Buenos Aires, Argentina, uniface oval silver medal with hanger (military award), Rio Colorado campai

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Buenos Aires, Argentina, uniface oval silver medal with hanger (military award), Rio Colorado campai
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Buenos Aires, Argentina, uniface oval silver medal with hanger (military award), Rio Colorado campaign under Rosas against the Araucanian natives (1833, struck 1834). 14.13 grams total. Legend reads LA PROV.A DE BUEN.S AY.S AL PATRIOTISMO Y AL VALOR around wreathed arms, nicely toned AXF with a few minor marks, holed at top (the hanger added later), an important and valuable issue featured in Cunietti's Historia de las Medallas Argentinas 1747-1880.