Buenos Aires, Argentina, uniface oval silver medal with hanger (military award), Rio Colorado campaign under Rosas against the Araucanian natives (1833, struck 1834), very rare. Cunietti-pp. 92-93. 39x32mm, 12.62 grams. Legend reads LA PROV.A DE BUEN.S AY.S AL PATRIOTISMO Y AL VALOR. around wreathed arms, nicely toned AXF with a few minor marks (scratched on blank reverse) and PATRIOTISMO re-engraved, the hanger added later, an important and valuable issue featured in Cunietti's Historia de las Medallas Argentinas 1747-1880 (2010).
Estimate: $800-1200