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  • 5 Centavos 1970-1975, KM# 65, Argentina
  • 5 Centavos 1970-1975, KM# 65, Argentina
Obverse

Head of Liberty, wearing a Phrygian cap, facing left, name of country and lettering "Freedom'' in Spanish around.

The Phrygian cap is a soft conical cap with the top pulled forward, associated in antiquity with several peoples in Eastern Europe and Anatolia, including Phrygia, Dacia, and the Balkans. In early modern Europe it came to signify freedom and the pursuit of liberty through a confusion with the pileus, the felt cap of manumitted (emancipated) slaves of ancient Rome. Accordingly, the Phrygian cap sometimes is called a liberty cap; in artistic representations it signifies freedom and the pursuit of liberty.

REPUBLICA ARGENTINA
⋆ LIBERTAD ⋆

Reverse

Value with laurel branch left. Date below.

5
CENTAVOS
1973

Edge

5 Centavos

KM# 65 Schön# 65 CJ# 349-354
Characteristics
Material Aluminium Magnesium
Weight 0.9 g
Diameter 16 mm
Thickness 1.7 mm
Shape round
Alignment Coin
Mint
Casa de Moneda (Argentina) (CMSE)

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