Catalog
10 Pesos
| Issuer | Provincia de Buenos Aires - Ministerio de Hacienda / Aduana |
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| Year | 1820 |
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| Currency | Peso (1826-1985) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note with a typeset layout framed by a simple chain-link border. At centre upper area, the circular seal of the Province of Buenos Aires is printed, below which the text 'PAPEL FIRRETE O AMORTIZABLE' appears, followed by the denomination inscription 'VALE POR DIEZ PESOS' and a clause stating admissibility at customs for maritime and land imports. Two handwritten signatures appear in the lower portion, accompanied by wax seal impressions, and a manuscript serial number is noted in the upper left. |
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| Protection type | Wax seal |
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The Provincia de Buenos Aires was barely a functioning administrative unit in 1820 — the year is significant because it coincides with the anarchic collapse of central authority in the former Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, a period of near-constant civil conflict between provincial caudillos. That Buenos Aires was issuing customs-backed paper obligations at all reflects the province's attempt to leverage port revenue as a financial foundation when no national government existed to coordinate anything.
Attribution to the Aduana specifically matters: these were not bank notes but quasi-fiscal instruments, with the customs house acting as both guarantor and notional redemption point. The wax seal is the only authentication device — no engraved security printing, no serial numbering visible in most surviving examples.