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1 Peso
| Issuer | Banco Muñoz y Rodriguez & Ca., Tucumán |
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| Year | 1883 |
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| Currency | Peso (1826-1985) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in brown tones, with an elaborate guilloche design of interlocking floral and geometric lathe-work patterns filling the entire surface. Two large symmetrical vignettes of ornate numeral "1" cyphers flank a central blank oval medallion reserved for overprinting. A continuous Greek-key border frames the composition, and the bank title "EL BANCO MUÑOZ & RODRIGUEZ & Cª" is inscribed in a panel at the top center, with the denomination "UN PESO" in a panel at the bottom. The imprint "AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK" appears at both the top and bottom margins. |
| Reverse lettering | EL BANCO MUÑOZ & RODRIGUEZ & Cª UN PESO AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK |
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El Banco Muñoz & Rodriguez & Cª was one of several provincial private banks operating in Argentina's interior during the 1880s, a period when the national government had not yet consolidated currency control and regional commercial houses routinely commissioned their own emission. The American Bank Note Company printed for dozens of such institutions across Latin America during this decade, and the Tucumán series falls into that broader wave of provincial paper that preceded Argentina's catastrophic banking crisis of 1890.
The bank itself was short-lived. By the time the Baring Crisis hit and Buenos Aires moved to rationalize the monetary system under the 1890 reforms, most private provincial issuers — Muñoz & Rodriguez among them — had already ceased operations or been absorbed. Surviving notes from this issuer are genuinely scarce.