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200 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires |
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| Year | 1881 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is arranged in a horizontal format with the denomination numeral '200' in large oval cartouches at upper left and right, flanked by two intaglio portrait vignettes of distinguished gentlemen in early 19th-century attire. A central sailing ship vignette in detailed engraving occupies the middle ground, with the bank title 'EL BANCO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES' arched above and the denomination in words 'DOSCIENTOS PESOS' below. The date 'BUENOS AIRES, ENERO 1° DE 1885' appears at the top, with serial numbers at left and right, and a repeated guilloche underprint border at the base bearing the denomination. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES DOSCIENTOS PESOS BUENOS AIRES, ENERO 1° DE 1885 Según Ley de 5 de Noviembre de 1881 Pagará al portador y a la vista Garantía Nacional, pro. N° 00001 |
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The Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires was one of the few provincial institutions to survive the financial turbulence of the 1870s with its issuing privileges intact, largely because Buenos Aires province had refused to join the Argentine Confederation's banking arrangements on its own terms. By 1881, the province was operating under considerable fiscal pressure — the federalization of the city of Buenos Aires that year stripped the provincial government of its capital and forced an administrative restructuring that directly affected the bank's position and note circulation.
The American Bank Note Company produced this note at its New York facility, as it did for much of the Provincia series during this period. ABNC held long-running contracts with several Argentine provincial banks simultaneously, meaning plate design elements were sometimes shared or adapted across issues — worth checking against contemporaneous Banco Nacional and Banco de la Provincia de Córdoba output from the same years.
PS568 sits at the high end of the denomination range for this series, which limits surviving examples considerably.