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1 Peso
| Issuer | Banco de la Provincia de Córdoba |
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| Year | 1888-1894 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA ARGENTINA SERIE 004 EMISION GARANTIDA CON EL DEPÓSITO DE FONDOS PUBLICOS NACIONALES, SEGUN LEY DE 3 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 1887 EL BANCO DE LA PROVINCIA de CORDOBA pagara a la vista y al portador UN PESO en moneda Nacional Buenos Aires, 1° de Enero de 1888 (Translation: ARGENTINE REPUBLIC SERIES 004 ISSUE GUARANTEED BY THE DEPOSIT OF NATIONAL PUBLIC FUNDS, ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF NOVEMBER 3, 1887 THE BANK OF THE PROVINCE OF CORDOBA will pay on demand and to the bearer ONE PESO in National Currency Buenos Aires, January 1, 1888) |
| Reverse description | Central vignette in orange-red tones with two putti representing science and the arts, one holding a palette beside an easel, set within an elaborate scrollwork and guilloche frame. Numeral "1" and "UNO" appear at each side, with two columns of anti-counterfeiting legal text in small letterpress below the vignette. |
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The Banco de la Provincia de Córdoba was chartered in 1873 as a provincial institution operating under the Argentine system of free banking — a period when individual provinces could issue their own paper currency backed by provincial bonds or land. By the late 1880s, this arrangement had become severely strained. Rampant overissuance by provincial banks across the country contributed directly to the financial collapse of 1890, the so-called Baring Crisis, which nearly brought down the entire Argentine monetary system and forced the eventual centralization of currency issuance under the Caja de Conversión.
Notes from this series were printed by Bradbury Wilkinson in London — a common arrangement for South American issuers who lacked domestic intaglio capacity and trusted British security printers implicitly.