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ARGENTINA (Tierra del Fuego), struck in Buenos Aires, gold 5 gramos, issued by Julius Popper, 1889,

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ARGENTINA (Tierra del Fuego), struck in Buenos Aires, gold 5 gramos, issued by Julius Popper, 1889,
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ARGENTINA (Tierra del Fuego), struck in Buenos Aires, gold 5 gramos, issued by Julius Popper, 1889, variety with smaller letters and without stars at date, rare, NGC MS 62. Janson-7; KM-Tn8; Fr-2. 5 grams. Choice luster, very natural-looking and pretty, the rarer of just two denominations in a one-year type (highly sought by numismatists) 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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