Catalog
10 Pesos
| Issuer | Estado de Buenos Ayres |
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| Year | 1856 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark brown on plain paper, with a central vignette of agricultural implements — a plough, rake, and scythe — arranged horizontally across the upper register. To the left, a standing allegorical female figure is set within a vertical oval frame. A circular seal of the Estado de Buenos Ayres appears to the left of the central vignette, with the numeral 10 in a box at the upper right and the denomination word DIEZ repeated across the top border and corner labels. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely plain, printed on aged paper with no typeset text or vignette design, bearing only handwritten manuscript signatures in ink across the centre of the note. |
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The Banco y Casa de Moneda was Buenos Aires province's own institution, established to serve what was, between 1852 and 1862, a breakaway state that had refused to join the Argentine Confederation after Urquiza's victory at Caseros. Buenos Aires operated as a separate republic during these years, with its own currency, tariff revenues from the port, and banking infrastructure entirely independent of the national government forming in Paraná.
The PS prefix in the Pick reference signals a state-chartered rather than nationally authorized issuer — appropriate here, since no national authority existed that Buenos Aires recognized at the time of issue.