Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
18 Centavos Fuertes
| Issuer | Banco Nacional |
|---|---|
| Year | 1879 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | P#S663 |
| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a central vignette of a busy port scene with steamships and smoke, flanked by the denomination numerals '0.18' in the upper corners. A young girl in period dress appears at the lower left and a portrait of a bearded man in Renaissance-style attire at the lower right, with the issuer's name 'EL BANCO NACIONAL' in large bold letterpress across the centre. The date 'Buenos Ayres, 2 de Enero 1879' and series designation appear in the upper margin, with manuscript signatures of El Inspector and El Directorio at the foot of the note. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO NACIONAL pagará al portador y a la vista DIEZ Y OCHO CENTAVOS FUERTES en las monedas determinadas por la LEY NACIONAL BUENOS AYRES 2 DE ENERO 1879 SERIE A Guillermo Kraft Reconquista 95 Bs. Aires |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The 18 centavos fuertes denomination is one of the more peculiar fractional values in Argentine provincial banking history. Banco Nacional issued these as part of a small-change solution during a period when coin shortages made low-denomination transactions genuinely difficult — fractional paper was a stopgap, not a planned instrument.
Guillermo Kraft, the Buenos Aires-based printer responsible for this note, was a German-born typographer who became one of the most active commercial printers in Argentina during the latter half of the nineteenth century. His work here was domestic, not imported — a notable departure from the era's heavy reliance on European security printers like Bradbury Wilkinson or American Bank Note Company.
The "fuertes" designation distinguished these notes from the depreciating paper peso corriente then also in circulation.