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10 Centavos
| Issuer | Banco Mauá y Ca., Rosario |
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| Year | 1864 |
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| Value | 10 Centavos |
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| Obverse description | Single-sided note with a plain rectangular border enclosing lateral guilloche bands bearing the word CENTAVOS repeated vertically on both sides. The bank name BANCO MAUÁ & Cª is inscribed in an oval cartouche at center top, above the large numeral 10 and the denomination CENTAVOS in bold letterpress type. The obligation text reads VALE POR ... DE PESO FUERTE and a promissory clause states payment of one Peso Fuerte to the bearer for ten of these notes, with the place and date Rosario de Santa Fe, 5 de Noviembre de 1864 handwritten below, accompanied by two manuscript signatures. |
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| Obverse lettering | CENTAVOS BANCO MAUÁ & Cª VALE POR 10 CENTAVOS DE PESO FUERTE Pagaremos á la vista UN PESO FUERTE al portador de diez de estos billetes Rosario de Santa Fe 5 de Noviembre de 1864 |
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Banco Mauá y Ca. was the Argentine branch of Irineu Evangelista de Sousa's financial network — the Visconde de Mauá's commercial empire stretched from Rio de Janeiro through Montevideo and into Rosario at a moment when the interior Argentine provinces were chronically underserved by formal banking. The Rosario branch issued small-denomination fractional notes partly to address a persistent shortage of low-value coin in the region, a problem common to mid-nineteenth century South American commerce far from the mint at Buenos Aires.
PS#1745B2 suggests a signature or date variety within the broader Mauá Rosario series — these fractional emissions are among the rarer survivals, as low-denomination paper typically circulated hard and was discarded rather than saved.