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12½ Centésimos
| Issuer | Banco Comercial de Corrientes |
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| Year | 1868 |
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| Value | 12½ Centésimos |
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| Obverse description | Single-sided note printed in brown on plain white paper, with a guilloche-bordered frame enclosing the bank title 'El Banco Comercial de Corrientes' in ornate script across the top. A central vignette shows a hunting dog in a landscape setting, flanked to the left by the denomination '12 ½ CENTÉS.MOS' and to the right by a manuscript serial number. The lower portion carries the large letterpress legend 'DOCE Y MEDIO CENTÉSIMOS' above the bearer clause 'AL PORTADOR DE ESTE BILLETE', with a manuscript signature below the 'Por el Banco' line; vertical side panels bear the bank name in repeat. |
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| Obverse lettering | El Banco Comercial de Corrientes 12 ½ CENTÉS.MOS PAGARÁ Á LA VISTA DOCE Y MEDIO CENTÉSIMOS AL PORTADOR DE ESTE BILLETE Por el Banco BANCO DE CORRIENTES |
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The Banco Comercial de Corrientes was one of several provincial Argentine banks issuing their own paper during the chaotic monetary period that followed the fall of Rosas, when no unified national currency existed and each province largely fended for itself. Corrientes, a northeastern province that had maintained a degree of political independence throughout the mid-nineteenth century, chartered this bank to facilitate local commerce — the fractional denomination itself signals how scarce small change was.
Lithographed by Alberto Larsch in Paraná, the then-capital of the Confederación Argentina. Larsch was one of the few competent commercial lithographers operating in the interior at the time.