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10 Pesos Fuertes
| Issuer | Banco de la Província de Buenos Aires |
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| Year | 1869 |
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| Value | 10 Pesos Fuertes |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in green and black on white cotton paper. At left, an intaglio portrait vignette of a uniformed military figure, likely a founding-era Argentine leader, is set within an oval frame; to the right, a lively equestrian vignette shows gauchos on horseback in dynamic motion. The central field carries the large bold denomination legend "Diez Pesos Fuertes" over a fine guilloche underprint, with the bank title "El Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires" inscribed along the upper register and the numeral "10" repeated in the corners. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES Diez Pesos Fuertes DIEZ 10 Muestra Inspector Presidente |
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The Banco de la Província de Buenos Aires was one of the few provincial institutions that maintained genuine credibility during Argentina's chaotic mid-19th-century banking period. By 1869 it had already survived two major liquidity crises — 1857 and 1866 — and continued issuing notes largely because the national government lacked the infrastructure to impose a unified currency. The "Pesos Fuertes" denomination was the province's own accounting unit, pegged notionally to silver but increasingly nominal in practice.
The American Bank Note Company's New York workshops handled the engraving and printing, a relationship Buenos Aires maintained for decades. ABNCo's security printing was considered difficult to replicate locally, which mattered in a market where counterfeiting provincial notes was not uncommon.