Catalog
100 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de Buenos Ayres |
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| Year | 1826 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Single-sided note printed in black on plain paper, with the bank title EL BANCO DE BUENOS AYRES rendered in elaborate copperplate script across the upper portion. The Argentine coat of arms — an oval cartouche with a rising sun and laurel wreath — appears at the upper left, flanked by a sunburst vignette. The central text panel bears the denomination CIEN PESOS in bold letterpress within a scrollwork border, with the promise-to-pay clause in cursive script and the date written by hand, the whole note countersigned at lower left by the Contador and at lower right by the Presidente. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, left plain as was standard practice for early Argentine provincial bank issues of this period. |
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The Banco de Buenos Ayres was chartered in 1822 under Bernardino Rivadavia's reform program — Argentina's first serious attempt at a modern banking institution. It lasted barely a decade. The bank collapsed in 1836 under the weight of unchecked note issuance and the fiscal demands of the 1826–1828 war with Brazil, which forced it to abandon specie convertibility almost immediately after this note was issued.
Printed locally in Buenos Aires at a time when the city had no sophisticated press infrastructure, production quality on this series is notoriously inconsistent. Paper stocks varied between print runs.