Catalog
100 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco y Casa de Moneda de la Provincia de Buenos Ayres |
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| Year | 1858 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The note is framed by an elaborate border of guilloche rosettes and geometric lathe-work. At upper left, a small vignette renders a coastal or harbour scene, while at centre the arms of the Province of Buenos Aires appear in intaglio, surmounted by the curved arc inscription EL ESTADO DE BUENOS AYRES. The denomination CIEN PESOS MONEDA CORRIENTE is set in bold letterpress, with the issuing authority line Por el Directorio del Banco y Casa de Moneda below and the date Mayo 25 de 1858 at upper left, with numeral counters 100 in the corners. |
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| Obverse lettering | CIEN EL ESTADO DE BUENOS AYRES Reconoce este Billete por CIEN PESOS MONEDA CORRIENTE Por el Directorio del Banco y Casa de Moneda Mayo 25 de 1858 100 |
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The Banco y Casa de Moneda de la Provincia de Buenos Aires was one of the more unusual hybrid institutions in South American banking history — combining mint operations with paper money issuance under provincial rather than national authority. In 1858, Buenos Aires was still a separate state from the Argentine Confederation, having seceded in 1852 following Urquiza's defeat of Rosas at Caseros. These notes circulated in a polity that maintained its own customs revenue, its own foreign relations, and its own monetary system entirely independent of the interior provinces.
High-denomination provincial paper from this period rarely survived in quantity; the political reunification of 1861 and subsequent monetary reforms rendered much of it obsolete quickly.