Catalog
10 Pesos
| Issuer | Junta de la Administración de la Casa de Moneda, Buenos Ayres |
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| Year | 1841 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | ¡VIVA LA FEDERACION! 10 PESOS LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AYRES DIEZ PESOS MONEDA CORRIENTE Por la Junta de la Administracion de la Casa de Moneda MARAZO 1º 1841 |
| Reverse description | Plain rose-pink paper with no printed design, exhibiting a uniformly tinted surface with visible paper texture and minor age-related creasing. |
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The Junta de la Administración de la Casa de Moneda was the monetary arm of the Rosas government in Buenos Aires province, and by 1841 it had been issuing paper pesos for over a decade — the provincial currency having effectively collapsed from over-emission well before this note was printed. Argentina had no unified national currency at this point; each province managed its own paper, and Buenos Aires pesos traded at a steep discount against hard money throughout the early 1840s.
Printed locally rather than contracted to a European house, which accounts for the relatively crude execution compared to contemporary Brazilian or Chilean issues.