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10 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Otero y Ca., Córdoba |
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| Year | 1880 |
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| Currency | Peso (1826-1985) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by an oval portrait vignette at upper left, showing a uniformed male figure in bust format, framed by intricate guilloche scrollwork borders. A secondary vignette at lower left depicts a battle or allegorical scene with figures on horseback. The central field bears the issuing bank's name EL BANCO OTERO & Cía in bold letterpress, with the denomination DIEZ PESOS in large script lettering, accompanied by the clause Pagará á la vista y al portador and the place and date inscription Córdoba, 2 de Enero de 1880. Numeral denominators 10 and the word DIEZ appear in each corner panel. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO OTERO & Cía Nº A 03206 Pagará á la vista y al portador DIEZ PESOS Plata sellada en moneda de lei. Córdoba, 2 de Enero de 1880 DIEZ 10 |
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El Banco Otero & Cía was one of the provincial free-banking outfits operating in Argentina during the 1880s, before the financial reforms and eventual centralization that followed the Baring Crisis of 1890. These institutions issued their own notes under relatively loose provincial oversight, and many collapsed or were absorbed well before redemption could be guaranteed — leaving circulating notes as de facto losses for holders.
PS#2003 designation places this within the specialized South American provincial banking material, a category where surviving examples are genuinely uncommon. Otero & Cía left almost no institutional paper trail by modern standards.