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10 Centavos
| Issuer | Banco de la Nación Argentina |
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| Year | 1892-1896 |
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| Size | 100 × 60 mm |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on a brown guilloche underprint, with the Argentine Coat of Arms as a vignette at left and a portrait of President Domingo Faustino Sarmiento at right. The order number is printed in red. Five signature varieties are documented for this issue. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in brown, the reverse presents an intaglio vignette of a galloping gaucho on horseback with arms raised, set within an arched frame flanked by elaborate guilloche rosettes each bearing the numeral 10. The legend REPUBLICA ARGENTINA is divided across banners above and below the central vignette, and the printer's imprint runs along the lower margin. |
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The Compañía Sud-Americana de Billetes de Banco was established in Buenos Aires specifically to reduce Argentina's dependence on foreign printers — a direct response to the financial humiliation of the 1890 Baring Crisis, which had exposed how badly overleveraged the country's banking system had become. The Banco de la Nación Argentina itself was founded in that same wreckage, replacing the collapsed Banco Nacional in 1891.
At the fractional centavo level, these notes circulated hard and wore out fast. Surviving examples in any presentable condition are genuinely uncommon, particularly from the earlier dates in the 1892–1896 window.