Catalog
1 Peso
| Issuer | Banco Central de la República Argentina |
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| Year | 1951-1952 |
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| Printer | Casa de Moneda de la Nación, Argentina |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a seated allegorical female figure representing Progress, her right hand resting on a shield bearing the Argentine coat of arms and her left hand raised holding a lit torch; serial number printed in red at right. The denomination and issuing authority appear in letterpress across the face, with the legal references to Laws Nos. 12.962 and 13.571 inscribed in the lower panel. |
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| Reverse description | Green intaglio design centred on the Argentine coat of arms, enclosed within an oval wreath of laurel branches; the coat of arms is flanked by guilloche underprint work and framed by symmetrical border ornaments, with the denomination and country name rendered in bold letterpress. |
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Mouchon's name on an Argentine banknote is an artifact of plate inheritance rather than a fresh commission — the French engraver died in 1914, and his designs circulated through the hands of multiple printing houses and client states for decades afterward. The Banco Central was drawing on established intaglio work, not ordering new art.
The 1951–52 dating bracket reflects a brief window in Peronist economic management when peso denominations were being reshuffled amid accelerating inflation. Within a few years this denomination had lost practical utility at street level.