Catalog
20 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Industrial de la Provincia de La Rioja |
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| Year | 1884 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark blue-black on a pink-orange underprint. At upper left, the bank title 'EL BANCO INDUSTRIAL DE LA PROVINCIA DE LA RIOJA' appears in bold letterpress across the upper portion of the note, with the denomination numeral '20' enclosed in an oval at upper right. A central allegorical vignette to the left shows two classical female figures seated with industrial and agricultural attributes, flanking a steam locomotive in the background. The lower portion carries the payable clause, series designation 'A', the denomination in words 'VEINTE PESOS ORO MONEDA NACIONAL', and the place and date of issue 'Villa Argentina (Chilecito) de 1884', with spaces for Director and Gerente signatures along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | VEINTE PESOS EL BANCO INDUSTRIAL PROVINCIA DE RIOJA 20 20 |
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Banco Industrial de la Provincia de La Rioja was one of several provincial institutions that emerged in Argentina during the early 1880s, when a loosely regulated banking environment allowed provinces to charter their own note-issuing banks with minimal federal oversight. The arrangement was frequently chaotic — many of these banks were undercapitalized from the start, and La Rioja was among the poorer interior provinces, far removed from the commercial activity that sustained the larger coastal institutions.
Guillermo Kraft was a Buenos Aires-based printing house of German origin that handled a significant share of provincial and commercial printing in Argentina during this period. The bank itself did not survive the national banking reforms that followed the Baring Crisis of 1890, which effectively ended provincial note issuance across Argentina.