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10 Centésimos Fuertes
| Issuer | Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires |
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| Year | 1869 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | Dark intaglio print on white paper with a dense guilloche border running along all four edges. At upper centre, the bank title EL BANCO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AYRES is set in bold letterpress; to the right, a finely engraved vignette presents a classical female head in profile wearing a winged helmet. Two large oval counters bearing the numeral 0.10 appear at left-centre and upper-right, flanked by the promise-to-pay text in script reading Pagará al portador y á la vista DIEZ CENTESIMOS FUERTES en moneda de oro de curso legal, dated 1º Enero de 1869. A red serial number is printed at upper left, with manuscript signatures of the Inspector and Presidente below. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green, the reverse centres on a large circular guilloche frame enclosing an intaglio portrait of a South American indigenous woman shown in three-quarter view with braided hair. Oval denomination counters reading 0.10 flank the central vignette at left and right, set against a fine lathe-work underprint. The denomination DIEZ CENTESIMOS is inscribed in an arc at the top of the design, with FUERTES on a straight panel below the portrait, and the printer's imprint AMERICAN BANK NOTE CO. NEW YORK appears at the bottom margin. |
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The Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Ayres was one of the few provincial institutions that survived the chronic banking instability of mid-nineteenth century Argentina with its note-issuing authority intact. By 1869, the province and the newly consolidated national government were still in an uneasy financial relationship — Buenos Aires had only been formally incorporated into the Argentine Confederation in 1862, and provincial paper continued to circulate alongside national currency for years afterward.
The denomination in centésimos fuertes reflects the brief attempt to stabilize Argentine accounting around the peso fuerte system before inflation and convertibility crises made the terminology increasingly theoretical. ABNC's New York facilities handled the full production run.