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100 Pesos
| Issuer | Tesorería General de la República Argentina |
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| Year | 1860 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse bears the heading 'LEY DE 1° DE OCTUBRE DE 1860' at the top, with 'REPUBLICA ARGENTINA' in bold curved lettering flanking a central vignette of a reclining allegorical figure in a landscape with palm trees. The denomination '100' appears in corner medallions at upper right and lower border reads 'POR 100 PESOS', while the body of the note contains a handwritten promise-to-pay text in Spanish issued from Paraná, with spaces for date and maturity, above signature lines designated for 'El Ministro de Hacienda' and 'El Contador General'. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is largely plain, showing the printed text and design of the note in reverse impression through the thin paper, with extensive handwritten manuscript annotations in period ink covering most of the surface, likely endorsements or accounting notations made during the note's circulation. |
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The Tesorería General de la República Argentina occupied an ambiguous position in Argentine monetary history — it was a fiscal body, not a central bank, and its note issues from this period reflect the disorder of provincial versus national financial authority that plagued the country through the 1860s. Whether these notes circulated freely or functioned primarily as short-term fiscal instruments is not entirely settled.
Domestic printing at this date in Argentina meant limited technical sophistication. Security features were rudimentary, and counterfeiting pressure on high-denomination issues like this 100 Pesos was a known problem across multiple provincial series of the same period.