100 Pesos

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.