Catalog
1 Peso
| Issuer | Junta de la Administración de la Casa de Moneda, Buenos Ayres |
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| Year | 1844 |
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| Value | 1 Peso |
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| Obverse description | Plain paper note printed in red-pink ink, with a simple rectangular border enclosing the text in elegant script. The denomination numeral "1" appears in each of the four corners within small circular cartouches. The central text, rendered in calligraphic letterpress, reads "La Provincia de Buenos Ayres / Reconoce este Billete por / Un Peso / Moneda Corriente / Por la Junta de Administracion de la Casa de Moneda," with the date "1º de Enero de 1844" at the foot. A handwritten serial number appears at the top and a manuscript signature is placed below the central text. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is plain, unprinted paper showing typical aging, foxing, and handling wear consistent with a mid-nineteenth-century Argentine provincial issue. Faint manuscript notations and ink traces are visible, likely from contemporary endorsements or accounting records made during circulation. |
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The Junta de la Administración de la Casa de Moneda was not a conventional central bank but an administrative body overseeing the Buenos Aires mint — an institution that had itself been converting from metallic coinage to paper money obligations since the 1820s, largely as a consequence of the Banco de la Provincia's chronic specie shortages. By 1844, Buenos Aires under Rosas was effectively running a paper currency system with no meaningful convertibility, the mint-administered notes functioning as forced tender in a province that had long abandoned any pretense of a metallic standard.
PS#384 is among the earlier locally printed issues, produced within Buenos Aires rather than commissioned abroad.