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1 Peso Fuerte
| Issuer | Banco de San Juan |
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| Value | 1 Peso Fuerte |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark green and pink on white cotton paper. At left, an oval vignette presents an Andean condor perched on a rocky outcrop against a mountainous landscape. The centre carries the bank title EL BANCO DE SAN JUAN in bold letterpress, with the denomination UN PESO FUERTE in large display type below, flanked by guilloche ornamental borders and corner numerals. At right, an ornate panel contains a large numeral 1 within an architectural frame; series, number, and manuscript date lines appear in the lower centre field. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in pink with no additional colours. Two oval portrait vignettes — each showing a female allegorical bust in profile — flank a large central ornamental panel bearing a stylised numeral 1 surrounded by radiating guilloche work. The overall composition is filled with intricate lathe-work rosettes and interlocking scroll borders typical of mid-nineteenth-century intaglio bank-note engraving. |
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Banco de San Juan was one of several Argentine provincial banks authorized to issue notes following the 1853 constitution, which granted provinces considerable latitude in establishing local financial institutions before the eventual move toward centralized monetary control in the 1890s. San Juan province, landlocked and dependent on mining and agriculture, had limited commercial banking infrastructure, and these early emissions were as much about regional political assertion as practical liquidity.
PS#1880 is among the scarcer provincial Argentine issues in the Pick Specialized catalog. Documentation on exact print runs, issuing dates, and redemption history for this series remains fragmentary.