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2 Pesos Fuertes
| Issuer | Banco de la Província de Buenos Aires |
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| Year | 1871 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES 1° Enero de 1871 DOS PESOS FUERTES Pagará al portador y á la vista en moneda de oro de curso legal Inspector Presidente AMERICAN BANK NOTE CO. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in green intaglio and displays an elaborate all-over guilloche pattern composed of interlocking floral and heart-shaped lathe-work ornaments. Two large circular guilloche rosettes at left and right each contain the bold white numeral "2", while a central cartouche in the same style bears the denomination inscription "FUERTES / DOS PESOS / FUERTES" in three lines. A small text line at the bottom margin identifies the printing company. |
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The Banco de la Província de Buenos Aires was, at this point, effectively the financial backbone of the Argentine interior — operating independently of the national government in a way no provincial bank could manage after the 1890 crisis reshaped the system. The American Bank Note Company produced the plates in New York, as it did for the great majority of South American issues in this period, and the quality of the intaglio work here reflects that company's dominance of the regional market through the 1870s.
The *peso fuerte* denomination is a specificity worth noting: it distinguished specie-backed or nominally hard-currency obligations from the inflationary *papel moneda* that had plagued Buenos Aires since the 1820s. By 1871, that distinction was already under pressure.