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10 Pesos

Issuer Provincia de Buenos Aires
Year 1867
Type Local banknote
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Obverse lettering La Provincia de Buenos Ayres
Reconoce este billete por
DIEZ PESOS
moneda corriente Abril Ed. 1867.
POR EL DIRECTORIO DEL BANCO Y CASA DE MONEDA
DIEZ PESOS
Reverse description The reverse is unprinted, showing only the blind impression of the obverse design bleeding through the thin cotton paper, with the guilloche border patterns and central denomination vignette faintly visible as a mirror image against the plain white ground.
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The Banco y Casa de Moneda was one of several provincial institutions issuing paper money in Argentina well before any unified national currency existed — the Peso Moneda Corriente was a Buenos Aires instrument, not a federal one. By 1867 the province had decades of experience with inflationary crises, most notoriously the collapse of the Banco de la Provincia in the 1820s under Rivadavia, and public trust in provincial paper remained conditional at best.

The PS prefix in the Pick catalogue indicates this is classified under Argentine provincial and private issues — a crowded field where survival rates vary enormously by issuer and date. Cotton substrate was standard for the period and holds up reasonably well, though foxing at fold intersections is common on surviving Buenos Aires provincial notes of this decade.

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