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10 Centavos Fuertes
| Issuer | Banco de Londres y Río de La Plata, Rosario |
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| Year | 1874 |
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| Currency | Peso Fuerte (1826-1899) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark brown on cream paper, with elaborate guilloche borders and corner numeral medallions reading '10'. At left, an intaglio portrait vignette of a uniformed military figure is set within an oval frame; at right, a smaller vignette depicts a heron or similar wading bird. The central text panel carries the bank name, denomination legend, promise-to-pay clause, and the handwritten issue date 'Rosario, 1 de Junio 1874', above a manuscript signature of the bank director. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPÚBLICA ARGENTINA BANCO DE LONDRES Y RÍO DE LA PLATA DIEZ Pagaremos al portador á la vista DIEZ CENTAVOS FUERTES en moneda de curso legal Rosario, 1 de Junio 1874 N° 001787 DIEZ |
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The Banco de Londres y Río de la Plata was a British-owned institution operating under Argentine provincial charters, and its Rosario branch issued its own notes distinct from the Buenos Aires house — a common arrangement in a country where provincial banking authority still outweighed federal coordination in the early 1870s. The "Fuertes" denomination was a holdover designation distinguishing notes tied to hard currency equivalents from the debased paper pesos that had plagued the Río de la Plata region for decades.
PS prefix in the Pick system signals a privately chartered bank rather than a state issuer. The 1874 date places this squarely before the 1876 financial crisis that forced the closure or suspension of several provincial branches of foreign banks operating in Argentina.