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25 Centésimos
| Issuer | Banco Comercial de Corrientes |
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| Year | 1868 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S1582 |
| Obverse description | Dark brown letterpress note with a fine guilloche border framing the entire face. A central rectangular vignette portrays a resting jaguar or puma in a naturalistic landscape setting. The issuer name 'EL BANCO COMERCIAL DE CORRIENTES' arches across the upper portion, with the denomination '25 CENTESIMOS' to the left and the serial number and date 'MARZO 1° DE 1868' to the right; the promise-to-pay legend 'Pagará a la vista VEINTE Y CINCO CENTÉSIMOS al portador de este billete' runs across the lower field above two manuscript signatures, with the printer imprint 'Lit. Alb. Larsch, Florida 108 B°A°' at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted and shows a plain paper surface, with the obverse impression visible as a light offset through-print, including the ghost of the central vignette and text legends; no independent design elements or lettering are present. |
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The Banco Comercial de Corrientes was one of several provincial quasi-banks operating in the Argentine interior during the 1860s, issuing fractional notes to address the chronic shortage of small change that plagued commerce far from Buenos Aires. Twenty-five centésimos was about as low as paper currency got — these circulated more like tokens than banknotes, changing hands in market transactions where coin was simply unavailable.
Lithographer Alberto Larsch operated in Buenos Aires during this period, handling small commercial and governmental print work for provincial clients who lacked local facilities. The Corrientes issues are among the more obscure provincial emissions of the decade.