Catalog
10 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de las Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata |
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| Year | 1834 |
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| Value | 10 Pesos |
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| Obverse description | Horizontal format note with the bank title 'BANCO NACIONAL de las Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata' arched across the upper centre, flanking a central vignette with allegorical figures. The denomination '10 PESOS' appears in the upper left, with circular numeral counters at the left and right margins. The text body carries a promise-to-pay inscription in elaborate script, reading 'Promete pagar al portador y a la vista DIEZ PESOS en Moneda Metálica', with 'Buenos Ayres' and the year '18--' below, followed by the authorization line 'POR EL PRESIDENTE Y DIRECTORES'. |
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The Banco Nacional de las Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata was a short-lived institution — established in 1826 and liquidated in 1836 — whose collapse was bound up directly with the financial fallout of the war against Brazil and the chronic inability of the provincial government to service the bank's foundational debt. This note dates from the final years of that slow dissolution.
Printed locally in Buenos Aires rather than abroad, the production quality reflects the limited engraving infrastructure available in the Río de la Plata at the time. The bank's notes were notoriously subject to counterfeiting pressure throughout the 1830s.