100 Pesos Fuertes

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.