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10 Centavos
| Issuer | Provincia de Mendoza |
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| Year | 1893 |
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| Printer | Lit. Jacobo Peuser, Buenos Aires |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress note with an ornate geometric border. The upper portion bears the inscription PROVINCIA DE MENDOZA flanked by two diamond-shaped numeral 10 vignettes, beneath which the title LETRAS DE TESORERIA appears in a scrolled cartouche. The central text reads DIEZ CENTAVOS / MONEDA NACIONAL, with the series letter D and a manuscript serial number at left and right respectively; a small oval vignette with the Argentine coat of arms appears at lower left, and two manuscript signatures of the Ministro de Hacienda and Presidente del Crédito Público are inscribed below, with the place and date MENDOZA 1 de Enero de 1893. |
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| Reverse lettering | LEY 23 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 1892. Art. 5 Éstas letras de Tesorería serán recibidas, por su valor escrito, por el Banco de la Provincia en pago de amortización é intereses de todos los créditos hipotecarios y por las Oficinas públicas en pago de impuestos fiscales, municipales ó de aguas ó cualquiera otra deuda. |
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Mendoza's 1893 fractional notes were a provincial stopgap against chronic small-coin shortages that plagued interior Argentina throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century. The federal government's inability to maintain adequate copper and nickel coinage in circulation repeatedly forced provincial and even municipal authorities to issue their own low-denomination paper — a practice that Buenos Aires officially discouraged but rarely suppressed.
Jacobo Peuser's lithographic house was the dominant commercial printer in Argentina at the time, handling everything from postage stamps to trade catalogs. Not a security printer by specialization, which shows in the relatively modest anti-counterfeiting measures typical of this provincial series.