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1 000 000 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Central de la República Argentina |
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| Year | 1981-1983 |
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| Value | 1 000 000 Pesos (1 000 000 ARL) |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of General José de San Martín at centre-right against a fine guilloche underprint in pink and blue tones, with the denomination numeral 1.000.000 in bold at left and right. A decorative rosette vignette occupies the centre-left field, flanked by two signature lines with the titles GERENTE GENERAL and PRESIDENTE. The issuing authority legend appears across the upper centre. |
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| Protection description | Repeating sun pattern watermark across the banknote |
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By the time this denomination entered circulation, Argentina had already cycled through years of triple-digit inflation under the military junta that had seized power in 1976. A one-million-peso note was not an anomaly — it was a practical necessity. The peso itself was replaced entirely in 1983 by the Peso Argentino at a conversion rate of 10,000 to one, which rendered the entire late-series high-denomination run obsolete almost immediately after issue.
Casa de Moneda had been printing increasingly larger denominations in rapid succession throughout this period, with the physical notes struggling to keep pace with the arithmetic of daily commerce. This was the highest denomination issued under the collapsing Peso series before redenomination.