ARGENTINA - 1873: 4 centavos brown postage stamp depicting portrait of Mariano Moreno. Lawyer, journalist, and politician. Member of the Primera Junta, the first national government of Argentina, created after the May Revolution. Moreno was born in Buenos Aires in 1778. His father was Manuel Moreno y Argumosa, born in Santander, Spain, who arrived in the city in 1776 and married María del Valle. Mariano was the firstborn of the Moreno family and had thirteen brothers. During his youth he studied Latin, logic, and philosophy at San Carlos Royal College
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It shares the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, and is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. Argentina is a federal state subdivided into twenty-three provinces, and one autonomous city, which is the federal capital and largest city of the nation, Buenos Aires. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system. Argentina claims sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and a part of Antarctica. 100 Centavos = 1 Peso (1858, 1992). 100 Centavos = 1 Austral (1985). This postage stamp, as a physical objects, is part of a private collection owned by the author of the image
Size: 3200px × 3900px
Location: Argentina
Photo credit: © World of Stamp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
Keywords: 1873, administration, aires, america, ancient, antique, argentina, argentine, argentinian, argumosa, baltasar, britain, buenos, cabildo, carlos, carlotist, chuquisaca, cisneros, college, criollos, cuenca, de, del, enlightenment, envelope, government, guadalupe, heritage, hidalgo, historic, journalist, junta, lawyer, letter, liniers, mail, manuel, maria, mariano, married, marí, moreno, national, politician, portrait, post, postage, postal, postmark, primera, province, rare, revolution, royal, san, santander, santiago, south, spain, spanish, stamp, trade, valle, vintage
