Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
10 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Provincial de Córdoba |
|---|---|
| Year | 1889 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Peso (1826-1985) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by the bold letterpress title BANCO PROVINCIAL DE CÓRDOBA across the upper portion, beneath which the designation SECCIÓN HIPOTECARIA and BONO AGRÍCOLA-INDUSTRIAL appear. At left, a tall allegorical female figure in classical robes stands on a pedestal, rendered in fine intaglio engraving. At centre, an oval guilloche vignette frames the denomination numeral 10 surrounded by ornamental scrollwork, with the promise text of the Sección Hipotecaria Agrícola e Industrial inscribed within; at right, an intaglio portrait of a uniformed military figure appears within an oval frame. The large underprint legend DIEZ PESOS runs across the lower portion of the note, with DIEZ PESOS MONEDA NACIONAL printed below the central vignette, and the date CÓRDOBA, ENERO 1º DE 1889 and Series D notation appear at upper right. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | BANCO PROVINCIAL DE CÓRDOBA SECCIÓN HIPOTECARIA BONO AGRÍCOLA-INDUSTRIAL LA SECCIÓN HIPOTECARIA AGRÍCOLA E INDUSTRIAL DEL BANCO PROVINCIAL DE CÓRDOBA PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR DE ESTE BONO DIEZ PESOS MONEDA NACIONAL DIEZ PESOS CÓRDOBA, ENERO 1º DE 1889 Serie D American Bank Note Co. New York |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The Banco Provincial de Córdoba was one of several Argentine provincial banks empowered to issue their own currency under the 1887 Ley de Bancos Garantidos, which allowed provincial institutions to emit notes backed by national government bonds. The system collapsed spectacularly in 1890 with the Baring Crisis — Argentina's sovereign debt implosion — triggering a wave of bank failures and the forced nationalization of note-issuing authority. Notes from 1889 sit directly in the eye of that storm.
The American Bank Note Company held extensive contracts across Latin America during this period, and their Buenos Aires-adjacent clients frequently shared plate elements across issues. Worth checking the vignette work against contemporaneous issues from the same printer.