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20 Centavos Fuertes
| Issuer | Banco de San Juan - Sucursal (Branch) Tucumán |
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| Year | 1876 |
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| Value | 20 Centavos Fuertes |
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| Obverse lettering | Serie D. / El Banco de San Juan / pagará al portador y á la vista / Veinte Centavos Fuertes / en moneda de ley. / Tucuman, 3 de Enero de 1876. / Por el Banco |
| Reverse description | Bicolour reverse in blue-violet and rose-red, with intricate guilloche lathe-work filling the field. A central oval vignette in rose-red contains a classical female portrait in profile facing left, surrounded by fine engine-turned geometric patterns. The denomination numeral '20' is repeated in large figures at left and right within the guilloche underprint. |
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Banco de San Juan was a provincial institution operating under Argentina's pre-1890 free banking period, when individual provinces and private banks could issue their own circulating notes with minimal federal oversight. The Tucumán branch issuing its own notes under the San Juan charter reflects just how fragmented Argentine provincial banking was in the 1870s — a San Juan-chartered bank issuing paper redeemable in Tucumán was not unusual then, but it complicates the attribution of surviving examples.
The "fuertes" denomination signals hard-currency equivalence, distinguishing these notes from the depreciated "moneda corriente" notes that plagued Argentine commerce throughout the same decade.