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100 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires |
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| Year | 1881 |
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| Value | 100 Pesos |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR A LA VISTA CIEN PESOS moneda Nacional, oro Según Ley de 4 de Noviembre de 1881 BUENOS AIRES, ENERO 1° DE 1885 100 |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in blue, the reverse presents an elaborate guilloche underprint with ornate lathe-work corner devices and repeating geometric patterns throughout. A central intaglio vignette portrays a pastoral countryside scene with figures tending sheep and goats in a rural landscape. The denomination '100' appears in large numerals within circular guilloche frames at left and right, with the inscription 'BANCO DE LA' at top centre and 'PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES' along the lower margin. The printer's imprint 'AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK' appears at the bottom. |
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The Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires was one of the few provincial institutions that survived Argentina's chaotic banking period of the 1870s with its credibility more or less intact — partly because the province itself backstopped the institution through land revenue. By 1881, Argentina was entering a decade of aggressive foreign borrowing and infrastructure expansion, and denominations at this level were instruments of commercial credit rather than everyday exchange.
American Bank Note Company's work for South American clients during this period is well-documented. The ABNCo imprint on a Buenos Aires provincial note from this year places it squarely within a long contracting relationship between Argentine financial institutions and the New York firm that predates the republic's unification under Roca.