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Catamarca's 2001 emergency note is one of dozens of provincial quasi-currencies — collectively called "cuasimonedas" — that flooded Argentina when the national government froze bank accounts under the corralito in late 2001. Provinces facing payroll crises issued their own scrip to pay public employees, who then spent it at local businesses often obligated by circumstance, if not law, to accept it.

Catamarca was among the smaller, poorer provinces issuing these instruments, with limited fiscal capacity to back redemption promises. When the federal government eventually absorbed and redeemed the provincial scrip in 2002–2003, many issues returned in poor condition, making cleaner survivors disproportionately scarce relative to their original print runs.