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10 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Provincial de Córdoba |
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| Year | 1881 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S733 |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO PROVINCIAL DE CÓRDOBA DIEZ PESOS CÓRDOBA, 1 DE ENERO DE 1881 10 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in brown ink and consists of an elaborate all-over guilloche pattern composed of interlocking medallions and lathe-work rosettes arranged symmetrically across the field. The word 'DIEZ' appears in each corner, with 'DIEZ PESOS' and the numeral '10' repeated in multiple panels throughout the design, creating a dense security underprint characteristic of American Bank Note Company production of the period. |
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The Banco Provincial de Córdoba was one of the provincial banks chartered under Argentina's pre-1890 banking framework, which allowed individual provinces to issue their own currency backed by gold deposits held with the national government. That system collapsed spectacularly during the Baring Crisis of 1890, when overextension across exactly these provincial institutions triggered a sovereign default and the liquidation of most provincial banks — including Córdoba's. Notes from the early 1880s predate that collapse by less than a decade.
ABNC's engraved work for Argentine provincial clients during this period was notably fine. The guilloche underprint here was a deliberate anti-counterfeiting measure, not decorative.