Collection | Featured pieces

July 9 | Independence Day

Thematic selection of pieces

In 1816, a group of representatives of the then United Provinces confirmed in a declaration their intention to end centuries of Spanish colonial rule.

The declaration of independence was a sovereign and collective act. The historic Congress of Tucumán brought together 28 deputies, who met and debated day by day for many months to project a new nation. There the first guidelines of the current Argentine Republic were drawn.

In the rooms of our museum you will find the following pieces that commemorate that moment:

Room 4 | Argentine money today

50-cent coin minted since 1992.

$2 circulation coin, bimetallic (gold ring, silver core) commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Argentine Declaration of Independence, Mint S.E. Casa de Moneda.

Room 3 | Conservative Republic and the Twentieth Century

10 Peso National Currency Banknote, issued in 1961. Obverse: General San Martín in uniform, engraving made in England. Reverse: “Jura de la Independencia en Tucumán” Painting by the Catalan painter Pedro Blanqué” (according to the research of the numismatist Guillermo Beckmann, president of the Numismatic Center of Tucumán).

1 Peso National Currency Banknote, issued in 1952. Obverse: Effigy of Justice without blindfold, engraver, Volumnio Cericelli. Reverse, House of Independence in Tucumán. Engraver: Renato Garrasi.

10 Argentine Peso coin minted in 1985.

5 Australes coin minted in 1989.

10 Peso Coin National Coin, minted in 1966, commemorating the Sesquicentennial of Independence.