Catalog
200 Pesos
| Issuer | Junta de la Administración de la Casa de Moneda, Buenos Ayres |
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| Year | 1848 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The note is dominated by a central engraved vignette of the Buenos Aires waterfront, rendered in fine intaglio detail with sailing vessels and the city skyline. The denomination "200" appears in ornate cartouches at upper left and right, flanked by vertical side panels bearing the word "DOSCIENTOS" in letterpress. A guilloche border frames the entire design, with a blank serial number panel at top center inscribed "Nº" beneath the legend "LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AYRES / Reconoce este Billete por", and the denomination legend "DOSCIENTOS PESOS MONEDA CORRIENTE" in bold type below the vignette, with a date line and a rectangular "DOSCIENTOS" tablet at the foot of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AYRES Reconoce este Billete por DOSCIENTOS PESOS MONEDA CORRIENTE 1o de Enero 1854 DOSCIENTOS 200 Nº |
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The Junta de la Administración de la Casa de Moneda was not a central bank in any modern sense — it was a monetary board managing the Buenos Aires mint and its paper emissions during a period when the province operated its own currency entirely independent of other Argentine territories. By 1848, the Buenos Aires peso papel had been depreciating for years under the fiscal pressures of the Rosas government, and high-denomination notes like this 200 Pesos were a direct consequence of that inflation eating into the note's practical purchasing power.
The PS prefix in the Pick catalog indicates provincial or quasi-governmental status — this was never a national emission.