Catalog
200 Pesos
| Issuer | Junta de la Administración de la Casa de Moneda, Buenos Ayres |
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| Year | 1841 |
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| Currency | Peso (1826-1985) |
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| Obverse description | Rose-pink note with an ornate central oval vignette enclosing a panoramic view of the city of Buenos Aires as seen from the river, rendered in fine letterpress. Above the vignette, the patriotic legend "Viva la Federacion" appears in script, flanked by the issuing authority inscription, with the denomination "Doscientos Pesos Moneda Corr.te" in large calligraphic lettering below the vignette. The border is filled with repeated guilloche-style lettering reading "DOSCIENTOS" and the numeral "200" at the four corners, with the date and two manuscript signatures of the Contador and Presidente at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Viva la Federacion LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AYRES Reconoce este Billete por Doscientos Pesos Moneda Corr.te Por la Junta de la Administracion de la Casa de Moneda Contador Presidente DOSCIENTOS 200 |
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The Casa de Moneda in Buenos Aires had been functioning as the province's de facto central bank since the 1820s, issuing notes that circulated provincially rather than nationally — Argentina had no unified currency until 1826, and even then the experiment collapsed quickly. By 1841, the institution was operating under the Rosas administration, and paper peso emissions were already deeply inflationary; the province had been running on inconvertible paper since 1826 when specie payments were suspended and never meaningfully restored.
Printed locally rather than by a European firm, which was still unusual for South American issues of this period. Survival rate is extremely low.