Catalog
1 Peso
| Issuer | Provincia de Corrientes |
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| Year | 1841 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Single-sided note printed in dark ink on plain paper, with the denomination UN PESO inscribed at the top in large letters. A central circular vignette bears a provincial arms motif within a wreath. Three manuscript signatures appear across the face, with guilloche-style scroll underprint bands at the lower portion of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | UN PESO |
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Corrientes issued its own currency independently of Buenos Aires throughout much of the nineteenth century, a practical consequence of the province's geographic isolation and its fraught relationship with the Argentine Confederation. The 1841 date places this note squarely within the long governorship of Pedro Ferré and the broader Litoral conflicts — a period when Corrientes was actively aligning with Uruguayan and Brazilian interests against Rosas.
Provincial Argentine paper from this period survives in tiny numbers. Most circulated hard in a cash-starved frontier economy and were never redeemed in any organized redemption scheme.