2 Pesos

Catamarca's 1993 issue belongs to the brief wave of provincial quasi-currency that emerged during Argentina's Convertibility Plan period, when cash shortages at the provincial level forced several administrations to issue their own instruments — locally called "cuasimonedas" — to pay salaries and suppliers. These circulated alongside federal pesos but were never legal tender in a strict national sense, accepted only within the issuing province and by creditors willing to take the risk.

Catamarca was among the smaller, fiscally weaker provinces, and its issues from this period were produced in modest quantities. The watermark security is minimal for the denomination.