Catalog
100 Pesos
| Issuer | Provincia de Buenos Aires - Ministerio de Hacienda / Aduana |
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| Year | 1821 |
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| Value | 100 Pesos |
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| Obverse description | Plain paper ground with a decorative chain-link border running along the left edge and a rectangular ruled frame enclosing the entire face. At upper centre, an oval official seal of the Provincia de Buenos Aires dated 1821 with a coat-of-arms vignette. Below the seal, two lines of text indicate the note's negotiable status, followed by the principal denomination legend in large letterpress script. Two manuscript signatures appear in the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Blank reverse, typical of early Argentine provincial issues of this period. |
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One of the earliest paper instruments issued in the Río de la Plata region, this note predates the Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires by six years. The Ministerio de Hacienda was operating under severe fiscal pressure in the early 1820s — the provincial government had inherited colonial debts, lacked hard currency reserves, and was funding a nascent state apparatus almost entirely through customs revenue collected at the port. These notes were, in effect, an advance against expected tariff income.
Manuscript signatures and an impressed or hand-stamped official seal were the only security measures available locally. That combination also makes forgery detection unreliable on surviving examples, so provenance matters.