Coins, notes, and stamps meet in Carlos Paz

Carlos Paz Vivo! (opens in a new tab) (Fernando Agüero, 4 October 2026, 12:13) covers a collecting day that Saturday in Villa Carlos Paz. 4 October 2026 was a Sunday, so the Saturday in the note is 3 October. Collectors brought notes, coins, and stamps to show and to trade. The note interviews David Albornoz. It publishes no prices. Nothing it describes is identified in Notofilia’s virtual collection.

Trade

Albornoz says he started as a child and moved through calendars, books, stamps, and numismatic pieces. He compares collecting with a sport: leisure, with history and with order. He says philately and numismatics teach geography, cultures, and people, and that at these gatherings a series is completed by trade, with what someone else has left over.

A 1773 copper and the 8 reales

Among what was shown, the paper highlights early-century Argentine notes, bonds, and notaphily, and coins in several metals. Albornoz points to a large copper coin from the Russia of Catherine the Great, dated 1773, of nearly 55 grams, close to a medal. He also mentions the Spanish Empire’s 8 reales, which he describes as good-fineness silver struck from 1767 and circulated across South America. That weight and that starting year are the interview’s. The pillar dollar in the photo is a Mexican 8 reales of 1771, of Charles III. It is not the piece on the Carlos Paz table.

Albornoz recalls that under the viceroyalty the value sat in the weight of the metal. The note’s video is on YouTube (opens in a new tab).