Catalog
1 Peso
| Issuer | Provincia de Tucumán |
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| Year | 1900 |
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| Printer | Compañía Sud-Americana de Billetes de Banco |
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| Obverse description | Issued by the Provincia de Tucumán, the obverse carries the heading PROVINCIA DE TUCUMAN across the top, with the text Letra de Tesorería centered below. A portrait vignette of a male figure appears at the left, framed within an oval guilloche border, with the numeral 1 in each corner. The central text panel reads UN PESO in large letterpress type, with the promise to pay the bearer on demand, signed by two officials at the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a largely plain paper surface with a central guilloche underprint panel in red-pink tones bearing the numeral 1, surrounded by fine lathe-work patterns. The inscription PROVINCIA DE TUCUMAN appears faintly across the upper portion, with minimal additional design elements consistent with the austere production standards of provincial Argentine treasury notes of this period. |
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The Provincia de Tucumán was one of several Argentine interior provinces still issuing its own paper currency at the turn of the century, a practice the national government had been systematically trying to eliminate since the Banco Nacional's collapse in 1891. That Tucumán was still printing provincial notes in 1900 reflects how slowly Buenos Aires actually enforced monetary consolidation in the northwest.
The Compañía Sud-Americana de Billetes de Banco, a Buenos Aires-based security printer, handled a significant share of provincial and municipal note production during this period — the same firm printed for several other Argentine provinces in the 1890s and early 1900s before the federal government fully absorbed regional currency functions.