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1000 Pesos with 'DECRETO-LEY' on Obverse
| Issuer | Banco Central de la República Argentina |
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| Year | 1973-1976 |
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| Value | 1000 Pesos (1000 ARL) |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed portrait vignette of General José de San Martín occupies the right half of the note, rendered in brown tones against a multicolour guilloche underprint. The large numeral '1000' appears in an ornate lathe-work panel at left, with a further guilloché rosette at lower right. Two signature lines with the titles GERENTE GENERAL and PRESIDENTE are printed below the central inscriptions. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette presents an intaglio view of the Casa Rosada and Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires, with the Pirámide de Mayo obelisk in the foreground, palm trees flanking the building, and the Argentine flag raised above the facade. The Argentine national coat of arms appears in the lower left, set within fine guilloche work, while large denomination numerals '1000' occupy the upper right and lower left corners against a warm ochre and brown underprint. The printer's imprint is set at the base of the note. |
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Argentina's chronic inflation through the early 1970s meant that a 1000 Peso note — once a significant denomination — was losing purchasing power almost faster than the presses could keep up. The "DECRETO-LEY" overprint reflects the legal framework under which this series was authorized: a legislative decree rather than a formal congressional act, a distinction that mattered during a period when Argentina cycled through civilian and military governments with unsettling regularity.
Casa de Moneda printed the entire run domestically. The series straddles the return of Perón in 1973, his death in 1974, and the military coup of March 1976 — a span of three years that encompassed three different heads of state and accelerating monetary disorder that would eventually necessitate the 1983 Peso Argentino reform.