Catalog
2 Pesos Fuertes
| Issuer | Banco Argentino, Rosario |
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| Year | 1866 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in red-pink on plain paper, with an elaborate symmetrical guilloche pattern filling the central field. The denomination numeral '2' appears twice within ornate floral medallions at left and right. The bank's name is split across the design, with 'EL BANCO' at the top and 'ARGENTINO' at the bottom, integrated into the decorative framework. |
| Reverse lettering | EL BANCO ARGENTINO 2 2 |
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The Banco Argentino operated out of Rosario, then a rapidly expanding commercial port city that had only been formally declared a city in 1858. Provincial banking in Argentina during the 1860s was a fragmented affair — each institution issued its own paper under minimal federal oversight, and the American Bank Note Company became the dominant printer for this market precisely because Argentine authorities lacked the technical infrastructure to produce secure intaglio work domestically.
PS1543 is among the earlier entries in the provincial Argentine series. The bank itself had a short operational window before the banking consolidation pressures of the 1870s reshaped the sector.