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1 Peso de Oro
| Issuer | Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires |
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| Year | 1881 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark blue-black intaglio on white paper, with the bank title BANCO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES arched across the top. A central vignette presents a pastoral scene with cattle and a landscape, flanked by two oval portrait vignettes: a uniformed military figure at left and a civilian statesman at right, both engraved in fine detail. The denomination UNO PESO DE ORO appears in large lettering across the lower centre, with the text PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR Y A LA VISTA above, the date 1º DE ENERO DE 1883 at top left, and the serial number at upper right. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR Y A LA VISTA UN PESO DE ORO UNO 1º DE ENERO DE 1883 DETERMINADO POR LA LEY NACIONAL DE 8 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 1881 Inspector Presidente |
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The Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires was not a national institution but a provincial one — and by 1881, it was operating in the awkward space between Argentina's chaotic convertibility experiments and the eventual federalization of the Buenos Aires currency system that followed the 1880 political settlement, which had only just resolved the long dispute over Buenos Aires as the national capital. The Province retained its own financial infrastructure, and this note is a product of that transitional moment.
ABNC plates from this period are engraved to a high standard. The PS#535 designation places it in the provincial bank series documented by Pick rather than the national issues.