1 Peso

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.