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1 Peso
| Issuer | Banco de la Provincia de Corrientes |
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| Year | 1888 |
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| Value | 1 Peso (1 ARM) |
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| Reverse description | Central intaglio-printed vignette in orange-red shows two putti — one using a drawing instrument at a drafting board and the other holding a painter's palette before an easel — allegorically representing Science and Art. The vignette is framed by elaborate acanthus-scroll guilloche arches, with the numeral "1" in ornate cartouches at each upper corner and the word "UNO" in bold relief at the lower left and lower right. Two columns of legal text, citing Articles 30 and 31 of the Law of 3 November 1887, appear along the lower margin. |
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| Variants | P#S1131a - without overprint P#S1131c - overprint: Ley 20.09.1897 |
| Comments |
Corrientes was one of the last Argentine provinces still issuing its own paper currency well into the 1880s, long after the national government had been pushing toward monetary unification. This note dates from that stubborn provincial holdout period — Corrientes had a history of issuing its own bills stretching back decades, often out of fiscal necessity rather than monetary ambition.
Bradbury Wilkinson's involvement is unsurprising for the period; the New Malden firm handled a significant share of Latin American provincial and quasi-official paper through the second half of the nineteenth century.