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100 Pesos
| Issuer | Provincia de Buenos Aires |
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| Year | 2001-2002 |
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| Currency | Peso convertible (1992-date) |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed portrait of Dardo Rocha at right, rendered in a classical engraved style against a light guilloche underprint. The provincial coat of arms of Buenos Aires appears at lower left, with the denomination '100 PESOS' in bold red numerals at upper right and 'CIEN PESOS VALOR NOMINAL' in large letterpress text at lower centre. Two manuscript facsimile signatures of the Contador General and Tesorero General of the Province of Buenos Aires appear in the lower field, flanking a serial number. |
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| Signature(s) | Víctor E. Pereira (Contador General de la Provincia de Buenos Aires) and Amílcar Zufriategui (Tesorero General de la Provincia de Buenos Aires) |
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Buenos Aires province issued these notes during the 2001–2002 convertibility crisis, when the federal government's freeze on bank withdrawals — the infamous *corralito* — forced provincial governments across Argentina to print quasi-currency to meet payroll and public obligations. Buenos Aires was by far the largest issuer; its *Patacones*, as these became known colloquially, circulated at par with the peso and were accepted for tax payments and, eventually, by many private retailers.
Ciccone Calcográfica, the Don Torcuato security printer behind this issue, had been the dominant Argentine intaglio house since the mid-twentieth century. The federal government itself relied on the same facility for official peso production, which made the provincial emergency notes technically indistinguishable in print quality from orthodox currency — an awkward fact that complicated later redemption efforts.