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1 Peso
| Issuer | Banco Nacional - Caja de P.O. (Província Oriental) |
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| Year | 1826 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain paper note with a simple typeset layout typical of early 19th-century South American issues. At centre-top, the arms of the Província Oriental are printed within a circular vignette, flanked by the bank name in letterpress along the upper border. The denomination "UN PESO" appears in bold type at upper left, with a handwritten serial number to the right, and the promise-to-pay text in cursive script occupies the central field, followed by a manuscript signature over the printed legend "Por los Directores y Comp." The note is framed by a decorative typographic border, with "CAJA DE P.O." printed at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL UN PESO N° Promete pagar al Portador diez y siete Pesos, ó una Onza de Oro aollada, por diez y siete de estos Billetes. Por los Directores y Comp. CAJA DE P.O. |
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The Banco Nacional of the Provincia Oriental — present-day Uruguay — had an extraordinarily brief existence, collapsing within a few years of its 1826 founding as the region lurched through the Cisplatine War and its eventual separation from Brazil. Notes of this series were issued under conditions of near-constant political emergency, and few survived the institutional chaos that followed.
PS#339 is among the earliest paper money attributable to what would become Uruguayan territory. The "Caja de P.O." designation — Caja de la Provincia Oriental — reflects the hybrid banking and treasury function the institution was forced to perform in the absence of stable governmental infrastructure.