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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| Value | 200 Pesos |
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| Obverse description | The note is printed in purple on plain paper, with the denomination '200' in oval cartouches at upper left and upper right, flanked by the word 'DOSCIENTOS' in tall vertical lettering along both side margins. A central vignette presents a harbor scene with sailing vessels and a coastal townscape in the background. The issuing authority's inscription and denomination legend occupy the lower portion of the design, with a manuscript authorization line beneath the central vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | La Provincia de Buenos Ayres. Reconoce este Billete por. DOSCIENTOS PESOS MONEDA CORRIENTE. Por la Junta de Administracion de la Casa de Moneda. 200. DOSCIENTOS. |
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The Junta de la Administración de la Casa de Moneda was the issuing arm of the Buenos Aires mint under the Rosas government, functioning effectively as a provincial bank of issue during a period when the Argentine Confederation had no central monetary authority. Notes like this one circulated in a local economy still largely tied to cattle-hide commerce and subject to chronic peso devaluation — by the late 1840s, inflation had already eroded confidence in paper to a significant degree.
PS#410 places this among the rarer surviving denominations from the 1848 Buenos Aires series. Paper fragility and the political upheaval following Rosas's fall at Caseros in 1852 account for the attrition.