200 Pesos

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.