Catalog
20 Pesos
| Issuer | Junta de la Administración de la Casa de Moneda, Buenos Ayres |
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| Year | 1844 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Dark brown letterpress note with an ornate rectangular border enclosing a central vignette of running cattle beneath the main text. Oval denomination cartouches reading "VEINTE" appear at left and right, with the numeral "20" repeated in the lower center and upper corners. The central legend reads "LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AYRES" above "Reconoce este Billete por" and the large text "VEINTE PESOS MONEDA CORRIENTE", with the issuing authority line below. A vertical side panel at right reads "VEINTE PESOS" and the date "Abril de 1844" appears along the right margin. |
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| Reverse description | Plain off-white paper reverse with manuscript endorsements and handwritten signatures in brown ink applied across the surface, typical of circulated provincial Argentine notes of the period that were countersigned upon issue or transfer. |
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The Junta de la Administración de la Casa de Moneda — the administrative body overseeing the Buenos Aires mint — issued paper currency during a period when the province functioned largely as an independent financial entity, well before a unified Argentine monetary system existed. The Casa de Moneda had been issuing notes since the 1820s, and by the 1840s the peso moneda corriente these notes represented had already suffered severe depreciation through years of war expenditure and the ongoing French and Anglo-French blockades of the Río de la Plata.
Printing locally rather than contracting European firms was both a practical and political choice under Rosas. PS406 survivors show significant foxing along the edges, a known characteristic of the period's domestic paper stock.