Catalog
20 Centavos
| Issuer | Provincia de Jujuy |
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| Year | 1928 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | PROVINCIA DE JUJUY TITULO DE DEUDA PUBLICA LA PROVINCIA RECONOCE AL PORTADOR VEINTE CENTAVOS MONEDA NACIONAL DE CURSO LEGAL DE CONFORMIDAD A LAS LEYES 529 Y 530 Y DECRETO REGLAMENTARIO DE 30 DE ABRIL DE 1908 CON INTERÉS DEL 6 1/2 % ANUAL CONTADOR GENERAL MINISTRO DE HACIENDA TESORERO GENERAL |
| Reverse description | Green note with a continuous meander guilloche border identical to the obverse. The upper portion carries a dense block of legal text citing Leyes 529 and 530 (July 22, 1922). At lower left, a small circular vignette shows the Argentine national coat of arms. A deer or similar animal vignette appears at lower right. The denomination 'VEINTE CENTAVOS' is set in bold letterpress across the mid-section, with a further explanatory text block below concerning regulation of Leyes 529 and 530 by acuerdo de gobierno, referencing the Banco de la Nación Argentina and revenue allocation. |
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Provincial note issues from Argentina in the 1920s were rare — the national banking framework had long suppressed subnational currency, and most provinces had no issuing authority of their own by this period. Jujuy, one of the poorer and more isolated northern provinces, occupying the Puna and quebrada country near the Bolivian border, had persistent small-change shortages that the national money supply simply didn't address efficiently at the retail level.
The PS prefix in the Pick catalogue places this firmly in the emergency or provisional issues category. Fractional centavo notes of this vintage from minor Argentine provincial authorities are genuinely uncommon in any grade.