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1 Peso
| Issuer | Provincia de Mendoza |
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| Year | 1914 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Brown letterpress reverse with a finely executed guilloche border and large bold numeral '1' vignettes at left and right. At right centre, a classical female portrait bust in profile faces left, wearing a feathered headdress. A central text panel reproduces the full text of Article 4 of Ley N° 645 of Diciembre de 1914, stating that the obligations shall be accepted at face value by all provincial public offices in payment of taxes and services, and by the Banco de la Provincia in cancellation or amortisation of its credits, with 'UN PESO' repeated at top and bottom. |
| Reverse lettering | UN PESO Ley N° 645 – Diciembre de 1914 Art. 4.° ESTAS OBLIGACIONES SERÁN RECIBIDAS POR SU VALOR ESCRITO EN TODAS LAS REPARTICIONES PÚBLICAS PROVINCIALES EN PAGO DE IMPUESTOS Y SERVICIOS Y POR EL BANCO DE LA PROVINCIA EN CANCELACIÓN O AMORTIZACIÓN DE SUS CRÉDITOS UN PESO |
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Provincial emergency currency from the early República Conservadora period, the Mendoza 1 Peso of 1914 belongs to a class of sub-national fiduciary issues that proliferated when Buenos Aires tightened credit and the provinces were left to manage local liquidity on their own terms. Mendoza's economy at this point was almost entirely tied to the wine industry, and short-term cash shortages during harvest and crush seasons created genuine demand for small-denomination circulating notes that the national banking system was not supplying.
PS catalog placement confirms this as an emergency provincial issue rather than a chartered bank note. Local printing in Argentina kept costs down but also meant inconsistent ink distribution — a known technical weakness across the Mendoza provincial series.