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1 Peso Fuerte
| Issuer | Banco Nacional |
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| Year | 1873 |
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| Currency | Peso Fuerte (1860-1883) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in brown and black on cream paper. At left, an intaglio portrait vignette of General José de San Martín in military uniform is set within an ornate frame, captioned below. The central field carries the issuer title EL BANCO NACIONAL in bold letterpress, with the denomination UN PESO FUERTE in larger script below, accompanied by a promise-to-pay clause in Spanish. At upper centre, the Argentine national coat of arms appears within a guilloche oval, flanked by the place and date of issue reading Buenos Aires. At lower right, a secondary vignette shows a horse-drawn cart scene. The serial number appears in red at upper right, with two manuscript signatures across the lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in brown on cream paper in a dense, intricate pattern characteristic of American Bank Note Company security printing. The central area is occupied by a grid of fourteen circular medallion vignettes, each enclosing a distinct allegorical or symbolic motif including anchors, scales, clasped hands, a star of David, ships, and other emblems. The denomination UNO is printed in large letterpress at the centre. The entire composition is enclosed by an elaborate guilloche border with numeral-1 corner pieces, and the printer's imprint American Bank Note Co. New York appears at both the top and bottom margins. |
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Banco Nacional was one of several private banks operating in Argentina during the 1870s under provincial charter — not to be confused with the later Banco de la Nación Argentina, a state institution founded in 1891. The American Bank Note Company handled most of the prestige printing work for South American issuers at this period, and their Buenos Aires-destined contracts were substantial. Whether this note circulated widely before the bank's eventual closure is uncertain; Argentine private banking in this decade was fragile, and many issues were short-lived in practice.
PS#649 places this within the ABNC's documented production run for the issuer.