Catalog
1 Peso
| Issuer | Junta de la Administración de la Casa de Moneda, Buenos Ayres |
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| Year | 1841 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown intaglio print on cream paper. The central vignette shows a seated female allegorical figure resting beside a river or coastal setting, framed by an oval border. The denomination numeral '1' appears in each of the four corners, flanked on both sides by circular vignettes of provincial arms; across the top runs the patriotic legend '¡Viva la Federación!' in a decorative banner, with the issuing authority and date inscribed in manuscript below the central design. |
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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 |
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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.