Catalog
10 Pesos
| Issuer | Provincia de Catamarca |
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| Year | 1993-1998 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a detailed intaglio vignette of the Catedral Basílica Nuestra Señora del Valle, rendered in brown tones against a guilloche underprint with ornamental borders. The denomination '10 DIEZ PESOS' appears at the right, with the provincial title and legal text reading 'RECONOCERA POR ESTE TITULO PUBLICO AL PORTADOR - LEY 4748' across the upper portion. Two signature lines for the Ministro de Hacienda y Finanzas and the Gobernador appear below the serial number at the lower left. |
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| Reverse lettering | LEY No 4748 ARTICULO 1o - Autorízase al Poder Ejecutivo Provincial a emitir hasta la cantidad de PESOS NOVENTA MILLONES ($ 90.000.000) en Títulos Públicos al Portador... (Translation: LAW No 4748 / ARTICLE 1 - The Provincial Executive Power is authorized to issue up to NINETY MILLION PESOS ($ 90,000,000) in Bearer Public Securities...) |
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Catamarca's provincial quasi-currency emerged from the fiscal chaos of Argentina's Convertibility period, when many provinces — unable to run deficits under federal monetary rules — began issuing their own interest-bearing bonds that circulated as de facto banknotes. These instruments, generically called "cuasimonedas," were technically debt obligations of the provincial government rather than legal tender, a distinction that mattered enormously on paper and almost nowhere in daily commerce.
Ciccone Calcografica, Buenos Aires's principal security printer through this period, produced notes for several provinces simultaneously, which occasionally created superficial design similarities across different issuers. The Catamarca series ran through the late 1990s before the 2001–2002 crisis forced a national reckoning with all provincial quasi-currencies, most of which were eventually redeemed at negotiated rates against the restructured peso.