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10 Centavos
| Issuer | Banco de la Nación Argentina |
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| Year | 1895-1896 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in red. A central oval vignette contains a female allegorical portrait representing Liberty, with loosely flowing hair and classical drapery. The denomination numeral "10" appears on both sides of the central vignette, flanked by intricate guilloche lathe-work, with the printer's imprint "BRADBURY, WILKINSON Y Cª GRABADORES, LONDRES" along the lower margin. |
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| Variants | P#228a - issued note P#228s - specimen |
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Bradbury Wilkinson produced this note at a moment when Argentina's monetary system was still recovering from the catastrophic Baring Crisis of 1890, which had brought the country to the edge of sovereign default and forced a complete restructuring of its banking sector. The Banco de la Nación Argentina itself was created in 1891 specifically to replace the failed Banco Nacional — this fractional note belongs to one of the institution's earliest issued series.
Small-denomination fractional paper in this period was largely a stopgap against the chronic shortage of coin in everyday commerce. Most 10-centavo notes were handled to destruction.