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1000 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Central de la República Argentina |
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| Year | 1966-1969 |
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| Currency | Peso moneda nacional (1881-1969) |
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| Obverse description | Violet intaglio-printed note with a portrait vignette of a young General José de San Martín in military uniform positioned at right. The central field carries the principal obligation text in letterpress, with decorative guilloche underprint filling the background. Serial number and denomination numerals appear in contrasting ink. |
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| Obverse lettering | El Banco Central de la República Argentina pagará al portador y a la vista Mil pesos MONEDA NACIONAL 1000 PESOS (Translation: The Central Bank of the Argentine Republic will pay the bearer and at sight One Thousand pesos National Currency 1000 Pesos) |
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The P#279 1000 Pesos belongs to a transitional period in Argentine monetary policy when the Banco Central was quietly preparing for the peso moneda nacional's eventual replacement — it would be swept out by the peso ley 18.188 reform in 1970, at a conversion rate of 100 to 1. Notes of this denomination saw heavy commercial use and are consequently found well-worn far more often than in collectable condition.
The print date of April 1945 is worth flagging: plates or base sheets prepared years before a note enters formal circulation are not unusual in Argentine issues, but the gap here — over two decades between printing and the catalogued issue window — warrants scrutiny before attribution.