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10 Pesos Plata Corriente Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco de San Juan - Sucursal (Branch) Tucumán |
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| Reference(s) | P#S1863H2 |
| Obverse description | Printed in black letterpress on white paper in a horizontal format, the obverse carries two oval guilloche cartouches bearing the numeral '10' at either side of the central text panel, which bears the bank name 'BANCO DE SAN JUAN EN TUCUMAN' and the denomination legend 'DIEZ PESOS PLATA CORRIENTE BOLIVIANA'. A landscape vignette in the lower left depicts a rural Andean scene with mountains and a horse-drawn cart, while below the central text panel appear signature lines for the Casejero and Gerente, accompanied by a decorative panel bearing the word 'DIEZ'. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DE SAN JUAN EN TUCUMAN pagará a la vista al portador el valor de DIEZ PESOS PLATA CORRIENTE BOLIVIANA en moneda corriente en esta Provincia ó su equivalente en moneda de ley. Tucuman, de 187 Serie A DIEZ Casejero Gerente |
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The Banco de San Juan was one of several provincial Argentine banks authorized under the 1854 banking legislation that briefly allowed individual provinces to issue their own currency denominated in Bolivian silver — pesos plata corriente boliviana — rather than the depreciating Buenos Aires paper peso. The Tucumán branch issue is among the rarer provincial variants of this series, reflecting how thinly the San Juan bank's network actually operated in the interior.
Bolivian silver coinage was the dominant specie in the Argentine northwest throughout the mid-nineteenth century, making denomination in Bolivian units commercially practical in Tucumán in a way it would not have been on the coast.