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10 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Provincial de Santa Fé |
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| Year | 1882 |
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| Currency | Peso (1826-1985) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black intaglio on a pink-red guilloche underprint. At left, a portrait vignette of a distinguished gentleman in formal attire; at center, a pastoral scene with a gaucho on horseback, cattle, and a dog in a landscape setting. To the right, an ornate medallion with a radiant cross motif. The denomination numeral "10" appears in red at upper left, upper right, and in a red numeral panel at lower center. Inscriptions read "EL BANCO PROVINCIAL DE SANTA FÉ" across the top, with "DIEZ PESOS / MONEDA NACIONAL" at lower center and the place and date "ROSARIO, ENERO 1° DE 1882" to the upper right. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO PROVINCIAL DE SANTA FÉ PAGARÁ A LA VISTA ROSARIO, ENERO 1° DE 1882 DIEZ PESOS MONEDA NACIONAL INSPECTOR P. EL DIRECTOR GENERAL American Bank Note Co. New York |
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The Banco Provincial de Santa Fé was established by the provincial government in 1874, part of a broader Argentine pattern of provincial banking that operated largely outside federal monetary control. By the 1880s, provincial banks were issuing their own currency with genuine legal-tender status within their territories — a situation Buenos Aires tolerated uneasily and eventually dismantled through the 1890 banking reforms following the Baring Crisis.
American Bank Note Company printed the bulk of Argentine provincial paper in this period, and their Santa Fé commissions follow the firm's standard intaglio production of the era. The PS prefix in the Pick system signals provincial status, distinguishing this from federally authorized emission.