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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| Currency | Peso (1826-1985) |
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| Obverse lettering | ¡VIVA LA CONFEDERACION ARGENTINA! ¡MUERAN LOS SALVAGES UNITARIOS! LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AYRES Reconoce este Billete por Un Peso MONEDA CORRIENTE Por la Junta de Administracion de la Casa de Moneda. 1º de ENERO de 1844 |
| Reverse description | Reverse is unprinted plain paper. |
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The Casa de Moneda in Buenos Aires functioned less as a conventional mint and more as a provincial paper money machine during the Rosas years — its notes were the primary circulating medium in the province long before a national currency existed. The 1844 date places this squarely within Juan Manuel de Rosas's second governorship, when the province's finances were under constant pressure from blockades and military expenditures.
Printed locally rather than contracted to a European house, these early Argentine provincial notes are often found with significant wear and foxing, a consequence of both heavy circulation and the variable quality of domestic paperstock available at the time.