20 Pesos

Corrientes issued its own currency intermittently from the 1820s onward, functioning as a quasi-independent monetary authority long before Argentine federal consolidation made such arrangements untenable. The province's notes from this period were printed under extremely limited technical conditions — no access to the established European security printers, minimal anti-counterfeiting measures, and a local economy where cattle and yerba mate moved more reliably than paper.

PS#1304 is among the earlier substantial denominations from this issuer. Surviving examples are rare, and most known specimens show the kind of handling that suggests actual commercial use rather than archival storage.