| Descripción del anverso |
Yellow-green underprint with intricate guilloche work framing the central composition. At centre, a large vignette of a jaguar resting on a rocky outcrop; to the lower left, a classical female allegorical figure reclines. The large numeral '2' appears in each upper corner, with the bank title 'EL BANCO ARGENTINO' and denomination 'DOS PESOS FUERTES' in bold letterpress across the centre. The note bears a manuscript date of 1 January 1867, a handwritten serial number, and signature lines for 'EL GERENTE' and 'EL PRESIDENTE' at the lower right. |
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| Descripción del reverso |
Printed entirely in rose-red on a yellow ground, the reverse is covered by an elaborate all-over guilloche pattern with two large interlocking rosettes at centre, each enclosing the numeral '2'. Small vignettes of a pyramid appear in the four corners, and the bank name is split across the top and bottom margins reading 'EL BANCO' and 'ARGENTINO' in capital letters. |
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The Banco Argentino was a short-lived provincial institution operating out of Rosario during a period when Argentina's banking system was genuinely fragmented — individual provincial banks issued their own currency with little federal coordination, and confidence in paper varied dramatically from province to province. Rosario, then aggressively positioning itself as a commercial rival to Buenos Aires, supported several such ventures in the 1860s.
The American Bank Note Company printing credit places this squarely in the era when ABNC dominated South American contract work, supplying engraved currency to issuers who lacked domestic printing infrastructure capable of resisting forgery.