Catalog
2000 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Central de la República Argentina |
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| Year | 2023-2024 |
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| Printer | China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation (中国印钞造币总公司), China (1980-date) |
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| Reverse description | Detailed intaglio vignette of the façade of the Instituto Nacional de Microbiología, Pabellón Carlos G. Malbrán, occupies the centre-right of the note, rendered with fine architectural detail including ornamental stonework and arched entryways. A descriptive text block at left explains the institution's public health mandate, set within a red guilloche underprint with molecular motifs. The Argentine national coat of arms and denomination numeral 2000 appear in the lower left and lower right respectively, with two facsimile signatures at upper right. |
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| Protection description | Portraits of Grierson and Carrillo; windowed security thread embedded in the paper |
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| Comments |
Argentina's turn to the China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation for this issue reflects the country's chronic foreign-currency constraints — the BCRA simply could not afford to contract European security printers whose fees are typically settled in dollars or euros. CBPM had already been producing Argentine notes for several years by this point, an arrangement that quietly expanded as the peso crisis deepened.
The 2,000-peso denomination was itself introduced in 2023 in direct response to hyperinflationary pressure that had rendered smaller notes nearly useless for everyday transactions. Within months of issue, inflation had already begun eroding its practical value again.