1 Pesos Fuerte

Banco Oxandaburu y Garbino was a private Argentine provincial bank operating out of Entre Ríos, and this 1 Peso Fuerte note from 1869 is among the earliest documented issues from that institution. The American Bank Note Company printed the bulk of Latin American private bank paper in this period, and the quality of intaglio work on ABNC-produced notes consistently outpaced anything available from local presses.

Entre Ríos provincial banking in the late 1860s operated in a deeply fragmented monetary environment — the national currency unification that would eventually come with the Banco Nacional in 1872 was still years away, leaving provincial notes like this one doing real transactional work in a region where federal authority was only recently consolidated after Urquiza's defeat at Cepeda.