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10 Pesos Fuertes
| Issuer | Banco de Londres y Río de la Plata, Rosario |
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| Year | 1874 |
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| Currency | Peso Fuerte (1826-1881) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in a tricolour scheme of green, red, and blue, with large bold numerals '10' repeated across the field within interlocking guilloche medallions. The word 'PESOS' is inscribed at the centre of the main medallion, surrounded by lathe-work geometric patterns. Corner numerals '10' anchor the design, and the overall layout is typical of American Bank Note Company security printing of the period. |
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| Protection description | Intricate lathe-work guilloche patterns on both obverse and reverse serving as anti-counterfeiting underprint. |
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The Banco de Londres y Río de la Plata was the Argentine arm of the London and River Plate Bank, a British commercial bank that operated across South America from the 1860s onward. The Rosario branch issued its own notes separately from the Buenos Aires office — PS#1745 is specific to the Rosario house, not the parent institution's main Argentine operation. Provincial note issuance of this kind was common before Argentina's National Banking Law of 1887 rationalized currency authority.
ABNC produced this series at a period when Argentine provincial banking was still deeply fragmented, and counterfeit pressure on merchant-bank notes was significant. The guilloche underprint was the primary mechanical security measure available before more complex geometric lathe work became standard practice.