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2 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Provincial de Entre-Ríos |
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| Year | 1888 |
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| Currency | Peso (1826-1985) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black on white paper and carries the heading REPUBLICA ARGENTINA at top, with the Argentine national coat of arms at centre-top. To the left, an allegorical vignette shows two putti with a radiant sunburst. To the right, an intaglio oval portrait vignette of a uniformed military figure. The central text panel reads EL BANCO PROVINCIAL DE ENTRE RIOS pagará á la vista y al portador DOS PESOS, with series and serial number printed in red. |
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| Reverse lettering | 2 2 |
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Banco Provincial de Entre Ríos was a provincial bank operating under Argentina's decentralized banking regime of the 1880s, a period when individual provinces issued their own currency largely independent of federal oversight. That arrangement collapsed spectacularly in 1890 with the Baring Crisis, which triggered bank runs, provincial insolvencies, and the eventual forced conversion or withdrawal of most provincial paper. Notes from Entre Ríos issued in 1888 sit just two years before that unraveling.
The American Bank Note Company printed extensively for Argentine provincial banks during this decade, often producing notes that outlasted the institutions that ordered them.