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10 Centavos
| Issuer | Provincia de Mendoza |
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| Year | 1893 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | PROVINCIA DE MENDOZA LETRAS DE TESORERIA La Provincia de Mendoza reconoce al Portador DIEZ CENTAVOS MONEDA NACIONAL En las condiciones de la Ley SERIE D MENDOZA 1 de Enero de 1893 MINISTRO DE HACIENDA PRESIDENTE DEL CRÉDITO PÚBLICO LIT. JACOBO PEUSER BUENOS AIRES |
| Reverse description | Green letterpress reverse with a dense guilloche underprint filling the entire field, framed by an elaborate ornamental border with circular rosette medallions at each corner and along the sides. A central rectangular panel contains the legal text of the Ley 23 de Noviembre de 1892, citing Article 5 regarding the acceptance of the Letras de Tesorería at face value by the Banco de la Provincia for amortisation and interest payments and by public fiscal, municipal, and water offices. |
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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.