British and World Coins, Commemorative Medals, Numismatic Books

Argentina, Araucania-Patagonia (’Nouvelle France’), Orllie-Antoine, Pattern 2 Centavos, 1874, in bronze, unsigned, crowned shield, rev. value, edge plain, 10.01g/6h (VG 1; Bruce X1). Some die breaks on reverse, otherwise extremely fine or better with traces of original colour £150-200

Antoine Orville, a French lawyer and adventurer, proclaimed himself king of the remote region of Patagonia in 1858. His coinage was struck at the Paris mint