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1.000 Pesos
| Issuer | Estado de Buenos Ayres |
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| Year | 1857 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on white paper within a rectangular frame of fine guilloche border work. The central vignette presents a standing allegorical female figure amid tropical foliage, flanked symmetrically by two large oval counters bearing the numeral '1000'. The issuer's name 'EL ESTADO DE BUENOS AYRES' appears in bold lettering below the vignette, followed by the promise text in script, a small coat-of-arms cartouche, two manuscript signatures, and the date '1º Agosto 1857' at foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | EL ESTADO DE BUENOS AYRES Reconoce este Billete por MIL pesos moneda corriente Por el Directorio del Banco y Casa de Moneda 1000 1º Agosto 1857 |
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El Estado de Buenos Ayres was a breakaway political entity — separate from the Argentine Confederation — from 1852 until reintegration in 1861. This note was issued during that autonomous period, when Buenos Aires operated its own treasury and banking infrastructure independent of Paraná, the Confederation's capital. The Banco y Casa de Moneda de la Provincia had been issuing paper since the 1820s, making Buenos Aires one of the earliest paper money markets in South America.
PS# prefix in the Pick system places this within the private and provincial issues, a classification that understates the note's official character — during the separation years, this was sovereign currency within the state's own borders.