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1 Peso
| Issuer | Banco y Casa de Moneda de la Provincia de Buenos Ayres |
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| Year | 1867 |
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| Currency | Peso (1826-1985) |
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| Obverse description | The face is printed in black on white paper and enclosed within an intricate guilloche border with circular corner medallions each bearing the numeral "1". A central vignette presents a standing sheep in a pastoral setting, flanked on either side by oval underprint cartouches inscribed "1 PESO" within decorative frames. The serial number appears in a panel at the top, above the main legends, with the date "Abril, 1º de 1867" and the issuing authority line printed below the vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AYRES RECONOCE ESTE BILLETE POR UN PESO MONEDA CORRIENTE. Abril, 1º de 1867. POR EL DIRECTORIO DEL BANCO Y CASA DE MONEDA UN PESO |
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The Banco y Casa de Moneda de la Provincia de Buenos Ayres occupied an unusual institutional position — it combined commercial banking functions with the provincial mint, an arrangement that gave Buenos Aires extraordinary monetary autonomy from the Argentine Confederation throughout the mid-nineteenth century. This note dates from the period following the 1862 national unification, when the province was still operating its own currency infrastructure largely independent of federal control, a source of persistent tension with the nascent national government in the same city.
The PS prefix in the Pick reference signals a privately-issued provincial instrument, not a national emission.