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1 Peso
| Issuer | Junta de la Administración de la Casa de Moneda, Buenos Ayres |
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| Year | 1841 |
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| Currency | Peso (1826-1985) |
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| Obverse lettering | UN PESO ¡Viva la Federación! Nº LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AYRES Reconoce este Billete por UN PESO MONEDA CORRIENTE. Por la Junta de la Administracion de la Casa de Moneda 1º de Enero 1841 |
| Reverse description | Plain cream paper reverse with no printed design, showing the natural texture and aging of the note's stock, consistent with early nineteenth-century Argentine provincial issues where the back was left unprinted. |
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The Junta de la Administración de la Casa de Moneda — the administrative body overseeing the Buenos Aires mint — was functioning less as a traditional mint by 1841 and more as a de facto provincial bank, issuing paper against a metallic reserve that was, in practice, severely depleted. The province had been running a forced paper currency since the 1820s, and the peso moneda corriente had long decoupled from any reliable specie backing.
PS#377 places this firmly in the provincial emission series predating the Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires reorganization. These notes circulated almost exclusively within Buenos Aires province; the interior provinces often refused them outright.