2 Pesos

The Tesorería de la Provincia de Buenos Aires re-entered the currency business during the 2001–2002 convertibility collapse, when the federal government's freeze on bank deposits — the corralito — forced provinces across Argentina to issue their own quasi-currencies to meet payroll and public expenditure. Buenos Aires Province issued the Patacón series; this 2 Peso note belongs to a later supplementary phase of that provincial emergency emission, dated 2006 well after the acute crisis had passed.

Provincial quasi-currencies were legally bonds but functioned as circulating cash. The federal government eventually redeemed most of them at par, but redemption was uneven and slow.