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1 Peso Fuerte Argentine Occupation
| Issuer | Lezica y Lanús (Proveeduría de Víveres del Ejército) |
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| Year | 1870 |
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| Value | 1 Peso |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress impression on green paper, with an elaborate guilloche border running the full perimeter and repeated denomination numerals in the margins. The military coat of arms vignette is placed at upper centre, flanked by the bold issuer legend 'LEZICA Y LANÚS'; below, a rectangular cartouche carries the value inscription 'VALE POR UN PESO Fte.' A two-line bearer clause in smaller type occupies the lower register, with a hand-signed authorisation beneath it and two oval underprint medallions reading 'UN PESO' in the lower corners. |
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| Obverse lettering | UN $ FUERTE ASUNCION. 1870 LEZICA Y LANÚS PROVEEDURIA DE VIVERES DEL EJERCITO VALE POR UN PESO Fte. LA PROVEEDURIA del Ejercito pagará al portador y á la vista UN PESO FUERTE (de 16 en onza de oro). (Translation: One $ Fuerte Lezica and Lanús Army Supply Store Worth One Peso Fuerte The Army Supply will pay the bearer on sight One Peso Fuerte (1/16 ounce of gold).) |
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Lezica y Lanús was a Buenos Aires commercial house that operated as army provisioner during the campaign against the montonera forces in the interior provinces. This note was issued under that provisioning contract — essentially a private scrip backed by the firm's credit rather than any state treasury, used to pay soldiers and settle accounts in the field when coin was unavailable.
The firm's involvement in military finance during the 1860s–70s provincial pacification campaigns is rarely documented in standard Argentine monetary histories, which focus on the Banco de la Provincia and later the Banco Nacional. Notes like this one circulated in a grey zone between commercial paper and military currency.
The watermark is one of the few security concessions on what was otherwise a privately produced instrument of limited circulation geography.