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200 Pesos
| Issuer | Provincia de Buenos Aires |
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| Year | 1869 |
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| Currency | Peso (1826-1985) |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio on white paper. At upper centre, a rural vignette with figures harvesting or working in a field, flanked by the denomination numeral '200' in ornate panels at upper left and right. At lower left, a portrait vignette of a uniformed military figure in profile, and at lower right, an allegorical seated female figure. The issuer's title runs in bold letterpress across the centre, with the denomination in large script lettering below. A red manuscript serial number appears in the centre field, and two manuscript signature lines are present at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AYRES 200 |
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The Provincia de Buenos Ayres operated its own emission system independently of the Argentine national government well into the 1870s, a direct consequence of the prolonged political standoff between Buenos Aires province and the Confederation that had only nominally resolved with the 1862 unification. The province retained its own banking infrastructure — the Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires — and continued issuing its own paper currency years after federalization was supposed to have consolidated monetary authority in Buenos Aires city.
The American Bank Note Company held a near-monopoly on quality intaglio work for Latin American issuers at this period, and the Buenos Ayres provincial series of the late 1860s sits among their more straightforward South American commissions — technically competent but without the elaborate security printing innovations ABNC introduced in the following decade.