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100 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires |
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| Year | 1869 |
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| Value | 100 Pesos |
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| Obverse lettering | PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AYRES 100 Reconoce este Billete por CIEN PESOS moneda corriente 1.o Enero de 1869 Por el Inspector Por el Presidente del Banco |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, presenting a plain cream-white paper surface with no design elements, text, or ornamentation, consistent with early Argentine provincial note production of the period. |
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The Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires was one of the few provincial banks that survived Argentina's chronic monetary turbulence of the 1860s with its note-issuing authority largely intact. By 1869 it had been operating for over four decades and held a dominant position in the Buenos Aires money supply — its notes circulated far more widely than those of the national government's own instruments during this period.
The American Bank Note Company contract placed this note among a generation of South American issues printed in New York as regional banks sought prestige and security that local printing infrastructure simply could not provide. PS#491 sits in the higher register of the province's peso denominations, meaning relatively few would have changed hands in daily transactions.