Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
10.000 Australes
| Issuer | Provincia de La Rioja |
|---|---|
| Year | 1986 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 10.000 Australes |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries the full legal text of the bond authorization in small letterpress type, setting out the articles of the provincial law governing the Bonos de Cancelación de Deuda and their conditions of use. A panel at lower right displays the denomination DIEZ MIL AUSTRALES in bold type within a plain rectangular border. The numeral 10000 appears in large print at upper left, and the header repeats the issuing authority, bond designation and legislation reference. |
| Reverse lettering | PROVINCIA DE LA RIOJA - BONO CANCELACION DE DEUDA - LEY 4534 DIEZ MIL AUSTRALES PRORROGADO POR LEY 5302/89, DECRETO 1534/89 |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
La Rioja's provincial australes were issued under the authority granted to Argentine provinces during the federal government's repeated failures to supply adequate currency in the late 1980s. The national Austral itself had only been introduced in 1985 as a stabilization measure — replacing the Peso Argentino at 1,000 to one — yet within months the hyperinflationary spiral was already undermining it. Provincial notes like this one filled a genuine transactional void rather than serving any symbolic function.
Casa de Moneda printed these under contract, which is worth noting: provincial scrip produced by the national mint occupies an awkward legal category, officially tolerated but never formally integrated into the national monetary framework.