Catalog
1 Peso
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda y Banco de la Provincia de Corrientes |
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| Year | 1861 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The note is engraved in an elaborate 19th-century typographic style, framed by an ornate rectangular border of intricate scrollwork and foliate vignettes incorporating pastoral and allegorical scenes at the corners and upper register. At centre, the text 'LA PROVINCIA DE CORRIENTES' appears in bold lettering above the denomination 'Un Peso' in large script, with secondary inscriptions reading 'Año de 1861', 'Moneda Corriente', and 'Por la Junta de Administración de la Casa de Moneda'. A small rectangular panel at lower centre carries an anti-counterfeiting warning legend. |
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| Obverse lettering | LA PROVINCIA DE CORRIENTES Año de 1861 RECONOCE Este Billete por Un Peso Moneda Corriente. Por la Junta de Administración de la Casa de Moneda. La ley castiga al que se dedica al falsificador al que los presenta. |
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The Banco de la Província de Corrientes was one of several provincial quasi-banks that issued paper currency in mid-nineteenth-century Argentina before the national government consolidated monetary authority. Corrientes, a northeastern province with a long history of political autonomy — it was among the last to formally submit to Buenos Aires — issued its own notes well into the 1860s partly out of institutional inertia and partly because federal banking infrastructure simply hadn't reached the interior.
Provincial notes of this period were notoriously prone to counterfeiting and local discounting; a Corrientes peso often traded at a steep markdown outside the province's own commercial network.