Catalog
1 Peso
| Issuer | Banco Nacional - Caja de B.A. (Buenos Aires) |
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| Year | 1826 |
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| Currency | Peso (1826-1985) |
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| Obverse description | Plain horizontal format note with the bank title BANCO NACIONAL across the upper centre, flanked on both sides by rows of decorative capital-A ornaments forming a guilloche-style border element. The denomination Un Peso appears in the upper left, with a manuscript promise text reading Promete pagar al Portador de Oro sellado, por diez y siete below. A small oval vignette of the Argentine coat of arms is positioned centrally, with the authorisation line Por los Directores y Comp. below it and a manuscript signature to the right. The lower margin carries the anti-counterfeiting legend La ley condena a muerte al falsificador y cómplices. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL Un Peso. Promete pagar al Portador de Oro sellado, por diez y siete diez y siete Pesos, ó una onza de estas Billetes. Por los Directores y Comp. CAJA DE B.O. N° La ley condena a muerte al falsificador y cómplices. |
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The Banco Nacional de las Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata was founded in 1826 under Bernardino Rivadavia's presidency — a short-lived experiment in centralized banking that collapsed by 1836 under the weight of political instability and the bank's own overissue of inconvertible notes. The "Caja de B.A." designation signals this note was issued through the Buenos Aires cashier's office, the primary emission point for the institution's early circulation.
Printed locally rather than abroad, the crude execution reflects the limitations of Buenos Aires's nascent printing infrastructure in the 1820s. The Banco Nacional series remains among the earliest formal paper emissions of the Argentine Republic, predating the Rosas-era provincial issues that would dominate the following decades.