10 Centésimos Fuertes

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.