Catalog
10 Pesos
| Issuer | Tesorería General de la República Argentina |
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| Year | 1860 |
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| Currency | Peso (1826-1985) |
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| Obverse description | Green-tinted note with a central oval guilloche vignette bearing the inscription REPUBLICA ARGENTINA and the denomination $10 in large numerals. The serial number appears at upper left, with the text POR DIEZ PESOS at upper right and along the lower margin. The body of the note carries handwritten text in Spanish referencing the Tesorería General and the promise to pay ten pesos, with manuscript date, signatures, and an official circular stamp at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | LEY DE 1° DE OCTUBRE 1860 REPUBLICA ARGENTINA $10 Nº 01392 POR DIEZ PESOS POR DIEZ PESOS |
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The Tesorería General de la República Argentina was not a central bank but a national treasury office, and its note-issuing activity in the late 1850s and early 1860s reflected a federal government still scrambling to establish financial authority over provinces that had long operated their own monetary systems. Buenos Aires had only formally rejoined the Confederation in 1859 following the Battle of Cepeda, and treasury notes of this period circulated against a backdrop of unresolved fiscal competition between provincial and national instruments.
The PS prefix in the Pick catalogue signals this is classified as a private or semi-official issue — appropriate given the contested legitimacy of federal financial instruments at this moment in Argentine monetary history.