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1 Peso
| Issuer | Provincia de Salta |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | OBLIGACIONES DE LA PROVINCIA DE SALTA PÁGUESE AL PORTADOR UN PESO MONEDA NACIONAL DE CURSO LEGAL DE CONFORMIDAD CON LA LEY FECHA 20 DE JULIO DE 1921 CONTADOR GENERAL MINISTRO DE HACIENDA |
| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse printed in pale brown tones, with a guilloche meander border and a central vignette composed of the Argentine provincial coat of arms flanked by two oval allegorical medallions. A text panel below the central vignette carries a legal clause referencing Ley No. 583 governing the emission and redemption of the obligations, with the date 20 de Julio de 1921 repeated. The overall layout is typographic with minimal ornamentation beyond the border and central emblems. |
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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.