Catalog
10 Pesos
| Issuer | Junta de la Administración de la Casa de Moneda, Buenos Ayres |
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| Year | 1844 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | ¡VIVA LA CONFEDERACION ARGENTINA! ¡MUERAN LOS SALVAGES UNITARIOS! DIEZ La Provincia de Buenos Ayres Reconoce este DIEZ PESOS Billete por MONEDA CORRIENTE Por la Junta de Administracion de la Casa de Moneda Marzo 1° de 1844 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is plain unprinted paper, now heavily aged and stained, showing foxing and toning consistent with the note's considerable age. A faint offset impression of the obverse text is discernible through the sheet. No printed design, vignette, or inscription is present on this side. |
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The Junta de la Administración de la Casa de Moneda was the monetary arm of Buenos Aires province, not a national institution — Argentina had no unified central bank at this point, and each province managed its own paper emissions. This note predates the Confederation's first serious attempt at monetary consolidation by over a decade.
Buenos Aires printed its own currency locally throughout this period, which distinguishes it from contemporaries like the Banco Nacional notes that relied on foreign presses. PS#386 sits in a series that circulated during the Rosas era, when the province's finances were chronically strained by military expenditure and trade disruptions linked to the Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata, which began in 1845 — the year after this note was issued.