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1 Peso Fuerte
| Issuer | Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires |
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| Year | 1871 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES UN PESO FUERTE Pagará al portador y a la vista un peso fuerte en moneda de oro legal de 1 Enero de 1871 Nº Inspector Presidente Compañía Americana de Billetes de Banco Nueva York |
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| Reverse lettering | UN PESO FUERTE FUERTE |
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The Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires was the dominant financial institution in Argentina through most of the nineteenth century, and its notes functioned as the de facto circulating currency across the province long before any coherent national monetary framework existed. This 1871 issue came during a period of intense fiscal pressure — the province was still absorbing the economic shock of the 1871 yellow fever epidemic in Buenos Aires, which killed roughly eight percent of the city's population and triggered substantial capital flight.
American Bank Note Company had been producing paper for Argentine issuers since the 1860s, and the relationship with the Provincia was long and productive. The PS#527 designation places this within the cataloged provincial series, though surviving examples in circulated grades show heavy handling — these notes moved.