Argentina 100 Pesos Eva Peron Modified P358 Unc

At exactly 8:25 PM on July 26, 1952, Argentina ground to a halt. The official radio broadcaster’s voice trembled as he announced that María Eva Duarte de Perón, the "Spiritual Leader of the Nation," had passed away at the tender age of 33¹. What followed was a spectacle of grief so intense, so theatrical, and so prolonged that it resembled a religious event more than a national funeral. For weeks, millions of working-class Argentines queued in freezing rain just to kiss her glass coffin. next...