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200 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco y Casa de Moneda de Buenos Ayres |
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| Year | 1864 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress and intaglio print on white paper. The upper portion carries the issuer's name in bold capitals, with the date '1° de Enero de 1864' and a serial number at top. A central vignette of an equestrian figure is flanked by two smaller vignettes — an Argentine coat of arms surmounted by flags at left and a second allegorical scene at right — separated by the large denomination legend 'DOSCIENTOS pesos Moneda Corriente'. The lower register displays a numeral '200' in a guilloche rosette at left, a circular vignette with a scroll at centre, and two manuscript signatures below. |
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| Reverse lettering | 200 |
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The Banco y Casa de Moneda de Buenos Ayres occupied an unusual institutional position — it combined central banking functions with an operational mint under a single roof, a hybrid arrangement that reflected the fragmented monetary authority of mid-nineteenth century Argentina, where Buenos Aires province and the Confederation had only recently resolved their decade-long political rupture. By 1864 the bank was managing a paper currency that had already suffered severe depreciation cycles and enjoyed limited confidence beyond the province's borders.
The PS prefix in the Pick reference places this firmly in the specialized South American category — a collector signal that surviving examples are scarce and institutional documentation fragmentary.