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1.000 Pesos
| Issuer | Provincia de Buenos Aires |
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| Year | 1869 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S498 |
| Obverse description | The obverse is executed in intaglio on a blue and black bicolour scheme. A central vignette portrays a steam-and-sail vessel underway on open seas, flanked by two large ornate guilloche medallions bearing the denomination '1000'. To the lower left stands a male figure in period dress beside a table, while a portrait vignette of a uniformed military officer occupies the lower right. The denomination legend 'UN MIL PESOS' is set in bold letterpress across the centre, below the issuer inscription 'PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AYRES', with manuscript date '1° Enero de 1869' and signature lines for 'Inspector' and 'Presidente'. |
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| Reverse lettering | PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AYRES 1000 |
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The Provincia de Buenos Ayres operated its own note-issuing apparatus independently of the Argentine national government well into the 1870s — a residue of the prolonged constitutional standoff between Buenos Aires province and the Confederation that had only formally resolved in 1861. This note dates from a period when the provincial Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires still functioned as the dominant financial institution in the country, routinely outweighing the fledgling national treasury in both reserves and public confidence.
ABNC held the contract for multiple Buenos Aires provincial issues across this period, engraving the plates in New York. The PS prefix in the Pick reference signals private or quasi-governmental issue status — not federal legal tender.