🔥RARE🔥BRONZE MEDAL PROCLAMATION CARLOS IV 1789 SANTIAGO CHILE INDIANS

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¡¡ VERY RARE !!
CHILE: Carlos IV, 1788-1808, AE proclamation 8 reales (28.9g), 1789, Medina-146, Herrera-130, 44mm.
Bronze proclamation medal on 8 reales module for Los Indios Araucanos by Nazaual, bust of Carlos IV right with "1789" in exergue, all within inner circle with "CAROLUS IV. HISPANIARUM. ET IND. IMPERAT. AUGUST.(rosette)" around // two Indians standing facing with bow, arrow, and spear with rhea to right, all on landscape with OMNIBUS CLEMENS / NAZAUAL INCIDIT in exergue, all within inner circle with "HIGINIUS PRAEFECT.CHIL .PROCLAMAVIT IMPERIUM .ET OBTULIT HOMAG .POPUL .AUST. (rosette)
Plane edge.
This medal appears to be much rarer in bronze than in silver.
The Araucanian Indians fought the Spanish for over two centuries. They finally signed two treaties with Spain where the Spanish recognized the independence of Araucanian territory.
The hostilities were rekindled after Chile won its independence from Spain in 1818.
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