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  • 5 Pesos 1961-1968, KM# 59, Argentina
  • 5 Pesos 1961-1968, KM# 59, Argentina
Description

Engraver: Jorge Nicastro

Obverse

Depicts a sailing ship surrounded by the country name.

ARA Presidente Sarmiento is a museum ship in Argentina, originally built as a training ship for the Argentine Navy and named after Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, the seventh President of Argentina. She is considered to be the last intact cruising training ship from the 1890s.

The ship was originally built for the Argentine Naval Academy. ARA Presidente Sarmiento made thirty seven annual training cruises including six circumnavigations of the globe. The ship was retired as a seagoing vessel in 1938, but continued to serve without sails on Argentine rivers around 1950 and as a stationary training ship until 1961. She is now maintained in her original 1898 appearance as a museum ship in Puerto Madero near downtown Buenos Aires.

REPUBLICA ARGENTINA

Reverse

Branches, value and year.

5
PESOS
1963

Edge

5 Pesos

KM# 59 Schön# 59
Characteristics
Material Nickel Clad Steel
Weight 4 g
Diameter 21.1 mm
Thickness 1.9 mm
Shape polygon
Sides 12
Alignment Coin
Mint
Casa de Moneda (Argentina) (CMSE)

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