Catalog
100 Australes
| Issuer | Provincia de La Rioja |
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| Year | 1986 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse lettering | PROVINCIA DE LA RIOJA - BONO CANCELACION DE DEUDA - LEY 4534 LA CAMARA DE DIPUTADOS DE LA PROVINCIA, SANCIONA CON FUERZA DE LEY: 100 Cien Australes PRORROGADO POR LEY 5111/88 - DECRETO 525/89 |
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| Protection description | A printed barcode with colour-coded rectangular bars appears on the left edge of the obverse and right edge of the reverse; serial number printed twice on the obverse. |
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La Rioja's provincial australes were issued under the emergency financing arrangements that several Argentine provinces adopted in the mid-1980s as the federal government struggled with chronic fiscal shortfalls. These notes functioned as quasi-money — technically obligations of the province rather than legal tender in the national sense, yet accepted locally by administrative necessity. The Casa de Moneda printing is routine for the series, but the inclusion of a barcode as a security feature is worth noting: relatively few provincial emergency issues of this period incorporated machine-readable elements.
La Rioja was among the smaller provincial issuers, and lower-denomination australes from this series circulated hard and survived poorly.