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10 Pesos
| Issuer | Gobierno de la Provincia de San Juan |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Currency | Peso convertible (1992-date) |
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| Obverse description | The provincial coat of arms of San Juan is positioned at the left, set against a guilloche underprint in brown and cream tones. A central vignette shows the outline map of the Province of San Juan. To the right, the denomination numeral '10' appears in large format within a dark diamond-shaped panel with decorative border elements. Two manuscript signature lines appear in the lower centre-right, attributed to the Minister of Economy, Public Works and Services and the Governor respectively. |
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| Reverse lettering | DECRETO ACUERDO N° 0059/95 Artículo 1° ... (Translation: DECREE AGREEMENT No. 0059/95 Article 1...) |
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San Juan's provincial quasi-currency of the 1990s belongs to the broader Argentine lecop and patacón phenomenon, though San Juan's own instruments — known locally as huarpes — predate the better-known national emergency issues by several years. The province began issuing these notes amid severe fiscal stress as federal co-participation transfers dried up, using them to pay government workers who had little practical choice but to accept them.
Provincial acceptance was legally mandated for local tax obligations, which gave the notes enough forced circulation to function. Whether private merchants honored them was another matter entirely.