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1 Peso
| Issuer | Provincia de Mendoza |
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| Year | 1901 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | PROVINCIA de MENDOZA Letra de Tesorería LA PROVINCIA DE MENDOZA RECONOCE AL PORTADOR UN PESO MONEDA NACIONAL EN LAS CONDICIONES DE LA LEY MENDOZA, Junio de 1901 MINISTRO DE HACIENDA PRESIDENTE DEL CRÉDITO PÚBLICO |
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| Reverse lettering | UN PESO Ley No. 343 de 13 de Junio de 1901 Art. 6.° — Las Letras de Tesorería serán recibidas como moneda legal, por su valor escrito, por las Ramas de la Provincia y por las Oficinas Públicas para pago de impuestos fiscales, de aguas o cualquier otra deuda de este origen. UN PESO |
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Mendoza's provincial treasury notes from this period existed because the Argentine national banking system had not yet fully absorbed the interior provinces into a coherent monetary framework — local commerce needed instruments the federal system wasn't supplying. Guillermo Kraft's Buenos Aires lithography house was the dominant commercial printer of the era, handling everything from railway timetables to official documents, which says something about how these provincial emissions were procured: through commercial contract, not through a dedicated security printer.
The PS prefix in the Pick catalog places this squarely in the provincial and state issues supplement — a category that remains underresearched relative to Argentine national issues.