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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 description | Black intaglio print on white paper. The central vignette presents two allegorical female figures seated before a harbour scene with sailing vessels; to the left a smaller standing female figure in classical dress, and to the lower right a portrait medallion of a uniformed military officer. The denomination "100" appears in ornate numeral panels at upper left and upper right, flanking the arched issuer inscription "PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AYRES", with the text "Reconoce este Billete por CIEN PESOS moneda corriente 1.o Enero de 1869" in the central panel below the vignette, above two manuscript signature lines captioned "Por el Inspector" and "Por el Presidente del Banco". |
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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 |
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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.