2 Pesos de Oro

The Banco de la Província de Buenos Aires occupied an unusual position in Argentine monetary history — technically a provincial institution, it functioned for much of the nineteenth century as the de facto national bank, issuing currency that circulated far beyond Buenos Aires province. By 1883, that arrangement was increasingly untenable, and federal pressure to consolidate banking authority was mounting.

American Bank Note Company produced the series in New York, as they did for the majority of Argentine provincial issues in this period. PS546 is scarce in grades above Fine; the province's notes suffered heavy circulation and the paper of this era tends to go soft at the folds.