Catalog
1 Peso
| Issuer | Provincia de Corrientes |
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| Year | 1843 |
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| Currency | Peso (1826-1985) |
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| Obverse lettering | UN PESO N. [serial number] La Colecturía General debe por este billete en moneda igual la calidad que representa cuando se decreto su amortizacion. El Gobierno lo garantiza con los productos publicos y crédito de la Provincia. Raymundo Meléndez Manuel M. de Calvo Felipe Gonzalez La Ley condena al emisor, al falsificador y cómplice. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is plain, without printed design elements, consistent with the uniface handpress production typical of early Argentine provincial emergency issues. |
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Corrientes issued its own currency throughout much of the mid-nineteenth century as a matter of practical necessity — the province operated with considerable autonomy from Buenos Aires during the long years of caudillo-dominated federalism, and Buenos Aires paper money had little credibility or reach this far northeast. The 1843 date places this note squarely in the governorship of Pedro Ferré's political successors, a period of persistent rivalry with the Rosas confederation.
PS#1311 is among the earliest catalogued emissions for the province. Surviving examples are genuinely rare; Corrientes paper from this decade was issued in small quantities, circulated hard in a largely subsistence economy, and was not systematically preserved.