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1/2 Real = 6 1/4 Centavos Fuertes
| Issuer | Banco de Corrientes |
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| Year | 1873 |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark ink on pink-tinted paper. A central vignette displays two swans within an oval frame, flanked by two smaller oval guilloche medallions bearing the fractional values '6¼ Cts' and '½ Real'. The issuer's name 'EL BANCO DE CORRIENTES' appears at the top, with the denomination 'SEIS Y CUARTO CENTAVOS Ftes' in bold letterpress below the vignette, and the promise-to-pay text 'Pagará al portador y á la vista' above it. The serial number '10325' and series letter appear in the upper margin, with place and date 'Corrientes' printed at the lower centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE CORRIENTES SERIE A Pagará al portador y á la vista SEIS Y CUARTO CENTAVOS Ftes Correintes, 5 de Marzo de 1873 ½ REAL REAL 6¼ Cts |
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The Banco de Corrientes operated in one of Argentina's most financially autonomous provinces, which maintained its own banking institutions well into the period when Buenos Aires was consolidating national monetary control. This fractional denomination — half a real expressed simultaneously in the older colonial real system and the newer centavos fuertes — reflects exactly that transitional moment, when two parallel accounting systems coexisted in daily commerce rather than one cleanly replacing the other.
PS1611 is among the more elusive entries in the Corrientes provincial series. The dual denomination inscription alone dates it precisely to a brief window before the fuertes system took full hold in provincial usage.