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200 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires |
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| Year | 1881 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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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 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in a brown monochrome palette and centers on a large intaglio vignette of a formal gathering of approximately fifteen male figures in period dress assembled around a draped table bearing the Argentine coat of arms, likely representing a historical signing or legislative scene. The denomination numerals '200' appear in guilloche cartouches at lower left and right, with ornate floral and geometric lathe-work borders framing the composition. The bank title 'BANCO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES' is inscribed in two lines arching above and below the central vignette. |
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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.