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100 Pesos Fuertes
| Issuer | Banco de Corrientes |
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| Year | 1873 |
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| Currency | Peso Fuerte (1826-1881) |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE CORRIENTES Pagará al portador y á la vista CIEN PESOS FUERTES Corrientes CIEN PESOS FUERTES |
| Reverse description | Plain salmon-pink toned reverse with a large central lobe-shaped guilloche design composed of interlocking scalloped frames, each containing the numeral '100'. The inscription 'EL BANCO DE CORRIENTES' is set within the central medallion in bold lettering, surrounded by the ornamental repetitive counter pattern. |
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Banco de Corrientes was a provincial institution operating in Argentina's northeastern Corrientes province, and its notes circulated in a region chronically short of federal currency. The 1873 date places this note in a particularly volatile period — just two years after the conclusion of the Paraguayan War, which had devastated the regional economy and left Corrientes, which had actually been briefly occupied by Paraguayan forces in 1865, struggling to rebuild commercial activity.
Provincial bank notes of this type were frequently refused outside their issuing province, limiting real circulation range to local trade. The "Fuertes" denomination distinguished these from the debased paper pesos then circulating elsewhere.