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200 Pesos
| Issuer | Provincia de Buenos Aires |
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| Year | 1869 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on white paper with orange underprint. Central vignette shows a rural harvesting scene with figures and horses amid trees; denomination '200' appears in ornate oval frames at upper left and right. Lower left carries a portrait bust of a uniformed military figure, while lower right bears a seated allegorical female figure with a coat of arms. The bold letterpress legend 'LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AYRES' arches across the centre, with 'DOSCIENTOS PESOS' below in large display type, and a manuscript date line reading '1º Enero de 1869'. A red serial number is printed in the centre field. |
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| Obverse lettering | LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AYRES RECONOCE ESTE BILLETE POR DOSCIENTOS PESOS moneda corriente 1º Enero de 1869 Por el Inspector Por el Presidente del Banco 200 |
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The Provincia de Buenos Ayres operated its own currency apparatus largely independent of the national government well into the 1870s — a consequence of the bitter federalist-unitarian conflict that had defined Argentine politics for decades. Buenos Aires province had its own Banco de la Provincia, its own notes, and considerable resistance to ceding monetary authority to the interior. This 200 Pesos issue falls squarely in that period of provincial financial autonomy, before the 1880 federalization of Buenos Aires finally forced consolidation.
ABNC held the printing contract for multiple Buenos Aires provincial series through this period, producing work of consistently high intaglio quality from its Manhattan facilities.