Argentina Domingo Sarmiento 1900  

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Catalogue information

LastDodo number
5809723
Area
Tokens / Medals
Title
Argentina Domingo Sarmiento 1900
Type
Commemorative tokens
Publisher
Value
Country
Argentina
Year
1900
Collection / set
Material
Bronze, Silvered copper
Weight
Variety / overstrike
Obverse
A Sarmiento Sus Conciudadanos 25 de Mayo MCM
Reverse
(bust left)
Privy mark
Mint mark
Designer
Engraver
Dimensions / Diameter
50 mm
Number
Details
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento was a writer and scholar who became president of Argentina in 1868. His political activities and his outspokenness provoked the rage of Argentine military dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas, who exiled him to Chile in 1840. He returned to Argentina to help overthrow Rosas in 1852, reentered Argentine politics and was elected president of Argentina in 1868. He ended the war with Paraguay and brought education to a largely illiterate country.