Catalog
1 Peso
| Issuer | Banco Provincial de Catamarca |
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| Year | 1888 |
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| Printer | Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of Admiral Guillermo Brown in military uniform at left within an oval frame, national arms at center, and a group of three cherubs at right amid a decorative vignette of grapevines and foliage. The denomination "UN PESO" appears in large letterpress text at lower center, with serial number in red at upper right and lower left. A rectangular overprint stamp reading "Ley 20 de Setiembre de 1897" and "PROVINCIAL CATAMARCA" is applied across the center of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Central intaglio vignette of two cherubs engaged in the arts: one seated and writing or drawing, the other holding a painter's palette before an easel, set within a scrollwork arch. The denomination "UNO" appears in large letters at lower left and lower right corners, with elaborate guilloche and foliate border ornaments framing the entire reverse in a single color. |
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Banco Provincial de Catamarca was one of several Argentine provincial banks authorized to issue notes under the 1887 Ley de Bancos Garantidos, which required gold backing deposited with the national government in exchange for the right to print. The system collapsed spectacularly by 1890, triggering the Baring Crisis and wiping out most of these provincial institutions. Catamarca's bank was among the casualties.
Bradbury Wilkinson engraved and printed the entire series from their New Malden works. The firm was the dominant supplier to South American provincial issuers in this period, which means the plate quality is almost certainly better than the bank that commissioned it deserved.