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| Issuer | El Gobierno Nacional, Confederación Argentina |
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| Year | 1857 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | LEY DE 1° DE OCTUBRE DE 1857 CONFEDERATION ARGENTINA PRIMERA SERIE PAGADERA DESDE 1.° DE OCTUBRE DE 1857 Paraná, á 1.° de Octubre de 1857. EL GOBIERNO NACIONAL promete pagar al portador la cantidad de DOSCIENTOS PESOS y el interés del uno por ciento mensual desde la fecha de este documento hasta el día de su amortización, en descuento de una tercera parte de derechos en cualquiera de las Oficinas Nacionales en que fuere presentado. El Ministro de Hacienda. El Contador General. El Tesorero. DOSCIENTOS PESOS |
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| Reverse lettering | CONTRATO de 1.° DE OCTUBRE de 1857 EL GOBIERNO NACIONAL tiene el derecho de exigir la amortización de este billete abonando en metálico corriente su valor escrito e intereses vencidos. Cuando tratase de amortizarlo, lo avisará por el periódico oficial del Paraná por quince días consecutivos, debiendo presentarlo su tenedor dentro de los sesenta de la fecha del primer aviso. Vencido dicho término cesará de ganar interés. DOSCIENTOS PESOS |
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The Confederación Argentina was the rival government to Bartolomé Mitre's Buenos Aires Province during the political split that followed Rosas's fall — Buenos Aires had seceded and ran its own finances independently until reunification in 1860–61. The Ministerio de Hacienda issued these notes to fund a federal government that controlled the interior provinces but was cut off from Buenos Aires customs revenue, the dominant income source of the period. That fiscal pressure is precisely why these notes exist at all.
PS# catalogue placement confirms this as a private or semi-official emission rather than a chartered bank issue. Surviving examples are genuinely uncommon; the Confederación's monetary infrastructure was fragile and short-lived.