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ARGENTINA (Tierra del Fuego), struck in Buenos Aires, gold 1 gramo, 1889, Popper, NGC MS 62.

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ARGENTINA (Tierra del Fuego), struck in Buenos Aires, gold 1 gramo, 1889, Popper, NGC MS 62.
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ARGENTINA (Tierra del Fuego), struck in Buenos Aires, gold 1 gramo, 1889, Popper, NGC MS 62. Janson-7; KM-Tn5. Lustrous with traces of reddish toning, minimal marks on the high rims only, popular one-year issue struck by Romanian-Jewish gold-prospector Julius Popper using gold dust found on the beach of El Páramo in the Patagonian peninsula. Popper's expedition, under the name of Gold-Washing Company of the South (Lavaderos de Oro del Sud), achieved a sort of autonomy, with its own army and coins and postage stamps, as well as a notorious "wild west" atmosphere replete with crime and abuse of natives. Popper died suddenly and mysteriously in 1893.
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