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100 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de las Provincias Unidas del Río de La Plata |
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| Year | 1834 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset and engraved note with a central allegorical vignette of three classical female figures seated together, flanked on the left by two circular guilloche medallions enclosing numeral counters and a small coat-of-arms vignette. The denomination '100 PESOS' appears in the upper left, with the bank title arching across the top in ornate script. A promise-to-pay clause in italic script reads across the centre, with the place of issue 'Buenos Ayres' and date handwritten below, and the authority line 'POR LOS DIRECTORES Y ACCIONISTAS' printed at the foot above the signature lines for Contador and Presidente. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL DE LAS PROVINCIAS UNIDAS DEL RIO DE LA PLATA 100 PESOS RIO DE LA PLATA Nº Promete pagar al portador y á la vista CIEN PESOS en Moneda Metálica Buenos Ayres POR LOS DIRECTORES Y ACCIONISTAS Contador Presidente |
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The Banco Nacional de las Provincias Unidas del Río de La Plata was a short-lived institution — chartered in 1826 under Bernardino Rivadavia's reformist government, it collapsed in 1836 amid the financial fallout from the war with Brazil and chronic government borrowing against its reserves. A note dated 1834 places it in the bank's final operating years, when public confidence had eroded badly and its paper traded at a steep discount to silver.
Printing in Buenos Aires rather than abroad was a deliberate political choice early in the republic's history, though it meant cruder production than contemporaneous notes from European presses.