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1 Peso Fuerte Pattern
| Issuer | Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires |
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| Year | 1879 |
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| Composition | Silver (.900) |
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| Obverse description | Standing full-length figure of Liberty facing slightly right at center, draped in classical robes and wearing a helmet, holding a tall spear upright in her left hand and resting her right hand upon an oval shield decorated with a heraldic device at her side. The figure stands on a raised plinth within the coin field. A circular legend flanked by small stars reads around the periphery, with denomination and fineness notation divided at the base. The rim is defined by a toothed border of fine dentils. |
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| Obverse lettering | PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AYRES 1. PESO FE LEY 900 |
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The Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires occupied an unusual position in Argentine monetary history — it was a provincial institution issuing currency during a period when the national government and the provinces were still fighting, sometimes literally, over who controlled money. This 1879 pattern was produced as Argentina debated creating a unified national currency, a process that would culminate in the establishment of the Peso Moneda Nacional in 1881. The pattern never advanced to circulation.
Provincial banking authority in Buenos Aires was effectively extinguished by the Currency Law of 1881, making pieces like this a direct artifact of the last years of fragmented Argentine monetary governance.