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100 Pesos Fuertes
| Issuer | Banco de Cuyo |
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| Currency | Peso Fuerte (1826-1881) |
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| Obverse description | Pink and grey note with elaborate guilloche borders and corner numerals reading 100. A female allegorical bust vignette in an oval frame appears at the left, and a pastoral scene with figures and animals occupies a similar oval frame at the right. The centre carries the issuer title EL BANCO DE CUYO in bold letterpress above the denomination CIEN PESOS FUERTES, with manuscript-style script lines indicating series, number, and payability clause, and the place of issue San Juan noted below; a large underprint numeral 100 is visible behind the central text. The note illustrated is a SPECIMEN. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in shades of pink and grey with an intricate guilloche lattice pattern covering the entire surface. Multiple female profile busts in cameo style are repeated symmetrically across the design, set within circular and rectangular guilloche frames at the corners and centre. The denomination numerals 100 appear in the left and right central panels against the patterned background, with no textual inscription. |
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Banco de Cuyo was one of several provincial Argentine banks authorized to issue currency in the mid-nineteenth century, operating out of Mendoza and serving the Cuyo region at the foot of the Andes. The American Bank Note Company printed for dozens of Latin American institutions during this period, and the Cuyo plates would have been part of that considerable commercial operation out of New York — the bank had no printing capacity of its own.
PS1644 falls within a series where surviving examples are genuinely uncommon, partly because Banco de Cuyo's note-issuing life was cut short by the national banking reforms of the 1880s, which progressively stripped provincial banks of their circulation rights ahead of the Banco de la Nación Argentina's establishment in 1891.