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100 Pesos Fuertes
| Issuer | Banco de la Província de Buenos Aires |
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| Year | 1869 |
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| Value | 100 Pesos Fuertes |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on white paper. The central vignette presents a gaucho in traditional dress standing beside a white horse, accompanied by a dog, set against an open landscape. To the lower left, a portrait vignette of a gentleman in early 19th-century attire faces three-quarters right, while to the lower right a reclining allegorical female figure appears; the denomination "100" is repeated in the upper corners, and the bank title arc reads "BANCO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES" above the central scene. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES CIEN PESOS FUERTES Págese al portador y a la vista en moneda de oro de curso legal 1° Enero de 1869 No. Inspector Presidente 100 |
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The Banco de la Província de Buenos Aires occupied an unusual position in Argentine monetary history — it was a provincial institution that effectively functioned as the dominant currency issuer for the country's most economically powerful region, operating well before any national central bank existed. The 1869 series was produced by the American Bank Note Company at a moment when ABNC was consolidating its near-monopoly on South American government and bank printing work, having absorbed several rival firms through the 1850s and 60s.
PS#508 sits at the higher end of the denomination range for this series, which means surviving circulated examples are proportionally scarcer — large-denomination notes were scrutinized more carefully and wore out faster in commercial use. The provincial bank's notes circulated independently of national treasury emissions throughout this period, a source of persistent friction with Buenos Aires's federal rivals in the interior provinces.