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10 Centavos Fuertes
| Issuer | Banco de San Juan |
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| Year | 1876 |
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| Currency | Peso (1826-1985) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is laid out in a letterpress format with an elaborate guilloche border running along all four edges, incorporating the numeral '10' in each corner. A central vignette presents two portrait busts facing one another, set against a fine lathe-work underprint. The issuer's name is split across the upper field reading 'EL BANCO' to the left and 'DE SAN JUAN' to the right, with the denomination text 'DIEZ CENTAVOS FUERTES' repeated in two script legend lines below, and the place and date inscription 'San Juan, 3 de Enero de 1876' at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE SAN JUAN pagará al portador DIEZ CENTAVOS FUERTES en moneda y a la vista DIEZ CENTAVOS FUERTES de Oy. San Juan, 3 de Enero de 1876 Serie D |
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Banco de San Juan was one of several Argentine provincial banks authorized under the 1854 banking law, and its notes circulated in a region geographically isolated enough that Buenos Aires-issued currency was often scarce in daily trade. The 10 centavos fuertes denomination targets small retail transactions — denominations this low were typically the first to wear out and disappear, which makes any surviving example from 1876 worth attention on that basis alone.
The "fuertes" designation distinguishes these from moneda corriente issues, reflecting a formal peg to hard currency at a fixed conversion rate.