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200 Pesos Fuertes
| Issuer | Banco de la Província de Buenos Aires |
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| Year | 1865 |
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| Currency | Peso fuerte (1826-1881) |
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| Obverse description | The note is dominated by a central vignette of a seated allegorical female figure accompanied by a shield, flanked on the left by a vignette of a lighthouse with a sailing vessel in the foreground. Elaborate green guilloche borders frame the design at top, bottom, and sides, with the denomination '200' in large numerals at lower left and right corners. The issuer's name 'El Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires' is inscribed in bold lettering across the centre, above the promise-to-pay text and the written denomination 'DOSCIENTOS PESOS FUERTES', with the date 'Buenos Aires, Julio de 1865' printed in the upper portion. |
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| Obverse lettering | DOSCIENTOS El Banco de la Provincia DE BUENOS AIRES PAGARA AL PORTADOR Y A LA VISTA EN MONEDA DE ORO DE CURSO LEGAL LA CANTIDAD DE DOSCIENTOS PESOS FUERTES Por los Directores Buenos Aires, Julio de 1865 200 |
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Bradbury, Wilkinson & Company secured a significant share of Latin American banknote contracts during the 1860s, and this 200 Pesos Fuertes issue is among the higher-denomination products of that relationship with Buenos Aires. The Banco de la Província — distinct from any national institution — was at this point operating under provincial authority during a period when Argentina still lacked a unified national currency framework. The peso fuerte itself was a relatively stable unit tied to the Buenos Aires monetary system, which had gone through severe inflationary episodes in earlier decades.
High-denomination provincial notes from this period rarely circulated freely — they moved between merchants and institutions rather than hand to hand, which accounts for the survival rate being somewhat better than lower values from the same series.