Catalog
10 Pesos Fuertes
| Issuer | Banco de San Juan - Sucursal (Branch) Tucumán |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Pink and dark purple note with an oval vignette at left enclosing a classical female figure in profile, wearing a laurel wreath; a horse's head vignette appears at upper right within a guilloche border, and an Argentine coat of arms vignette is at lower right. The numeral 10 appears in each corner, with the note divided by ornate letterpress borders throughout. A partially completed manuscript date line reads 'Tucuman, de 18__'. |
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| Obverse lettering | TUCUMAN EL BANCO DE SAN JUAN Serie D. Nº 001900 pagará al portador y a la vista DIEZ PESOS FUERTES en moneda de ley. Tucuman, de 18 DIEZ PESOS FUERTES |
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The Banco de San Juan operated as one of Argentina's provincial banking institutions during the mid-nineteenth century, a period when individual provinces issued their own currency with minimal federal oversight. A branch in Tucumán issuing notes denominated in pesos fuertes — the hard peso standard tied nominally to silver — reflects the commercial reach these provincial banks attempted across interior Argentina before the monetary consolidation efforts of the 1880s brought most of them to an end.
The PS prefix in the Pick catalog places this among Argentine provincial and private issues, a category where surviving examples are genuinely uncommon. Documentation on this specific branch's circulation history is sparse.