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 description | Plain typeset note on aged paper with a fine guilloche border running along all four edges and corner numerals reading '10'. The central text panel carries the issuing authority and denomination inscription, with a handwritten serial number in manuscript script across the upper portion. A handwritten signature of the Junta administrator appears in the lower centre, alongside an oval 'DIEZ' cartouche at the lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | DIEZ PESOS De la Junta de la Administración de la Casa de Moneda Buenos Ayres Billetes por MONEDA CORRIENTE 10 |
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The Junta de la Administración de la Casa de Moneda was Buenos Aires province's note-issuing body during the long Rosas period — a monetary arrangement that kept the province financially independent from the Argentine Confederation it refused to join. By 1844, the Casa de Moneda had been issuing inconvertible paper since the forced suspension of specie payments in 1826, a suspension that was never reversed during Rosas's rule and that lasted, effectively, until the 1860s.
Notes of this series were printed locally, making them significantly cruder than contemporaneous South American issues produced by European firms. Survival rates are low — Buenos Aires humidity and decades of rough circulation took a heavy toll on the paper stock.