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1 Peso
| Issuer | Provincia de Salta |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 1 Peso |
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| Obverse description | Brown-toned obligation note with an ornate guilloche border framing the entire face. The header bears the legend OBLIGACIONES DE LA PROVINCIA DE SALTA in bold letterpress, with PÁGUESE AL PORTADOR and the large denomination UN PESO centered below. Two small numeral cartouches flank the denomination panel, a red circular official seal appears at left, and two manuscript signatures are present below the text CONTADOR GENERAL and MINISTRO DE HACIENDA, with the date 20 DE JULIO DE 1921 noted in the text. |
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| Reverse lettering | PROVINCIA DE SALTA Ley de 20 de Julio de 1921 Art. 5°. La emisión como el retiro de las obligaciones en su caso se harán de conforme a las disposiciones de la Ley No. 583. |
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Salta issued its own provincial currency in the early 1920s well after Argentina's central banking framework should have rendered such notes unnecessary — a reflection of the chronic underdevelopment of the country's interior provinces and the practical difficulty of maintaining adequate federal note circulation at distance from Buenos Aires.
PS2121 is thinly documented in the standard references, and surviving examples are scarce enough that population data remains unreliable. The issuing authority, the province itself rather than a chartered bank, places this outside the more familiar Argentine provincial banking series.