Front: (text) MONEDA / CIRCULANTE / ᴰᴱ / SAN JOSÉ
above (texted value) UN MEDIO
(bottom, year) 1867.
legend; none
legend: Coat of arms
legend: (part) PROVINCIADE ENTRERIOS
(right, state name) REP: ARGENTINA
(bottom, spacer/diamond) ♦
Note: ussued in Colonia San Jose, a settlement of
Swiss and Italian families in northeast Argentina
on the Uruguayan border, during a monetary shortage
arising from the War of the Triple Alliance fought 1865-70 (Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay vs. Paraguay)
Entre Rios was a border province far from Buenos Aires and close to the fighting zone
General Urquiza (deposer of Rosas) was a political power
in the province
As governor, during the war he autorized an Italian,
Pablo Cataldi, to make coins for the settlement
The central government issued no coinage between 1854 and 1881.
