Catalog
1 Peso
| Issuer | Banco Nacional - Caja de P.O. (Província Oriental) |
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| Year | 1826 |
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| Value | 1 Peso |
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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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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on plain uncoated paper and is essentially unprinted, showing only faint offset impressions from the obverse text visible through the sheet, along with minor foxing and age staining consistent with early 19th-century paper stock. |
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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.