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20 Pesos Fuertes
| Issuer | Banco Oxandaburu y Garbino |
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| Year | 1869 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a horse-drawn stagecoach scene in a landscape, printed in dark brown intaglio on a light rose guilloche underprint. The bank title EL BANCO OXANDABURU Y GARBINO arches across the upper portion, with the denomination numeral 20 in large ornate panels at left and right. Below the vignette, the promise-to-pay text is printed in script, with the issuing place and date Gualeguaychú, 2 Enero de 1869 inscribed in manuscript. |
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| Reverse description | Uniformly printed in rose-red on white paper, the reverse is composed entirely of intricate lathe-work guilloche patterns arranged in three large interlocking rosette medallions. The central medallion bears the bank name EL BANCO OXANDABURU Y GARBINO in two lines, while the flanking medallions each carry the numeral 20. A fine ornamental border frames the entire design, with the printer's imprint running along the top and bottom margins. |
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Banco Oxandaburu y Garbino was a private Argentine bank operating out of Gualeguaychú, Entre Ríos — a provincial commercial center whose banking activity in the 1860s reflected the broader experiment with free banking that characterized pre-centralization Argentina. The bank never achieved the scale or longevity of the major Buenos Aires houses, and notes from this issuer are genuinely scarce today, survivors of a short-lived institution rather than a prolific one.
The American Bank Note Company contract is worth noting — ABNC handled numerous South American provincial bank commissions during this period, often using shared plate elements across different clients, which occasionally leads to design similarities across otherwise unrelated issuers.