1 Peso de Oro

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.