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25 Centavos Fuertes
| Issuer | Banco de Corrientes |
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| Year | 1873 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in brown on pale paper, with a central vignette of a large feline (puma) resting in a naturalistic landscape setting. The issuer's name EL BANCO DE CORRIENTES is inscribed in bold letters across the upper portion, flanked by guilloche ornaments and repeated numeral 25 counters in each corner. The denomination VEINTICINCO CENTAVOS Fts is displayed in a solid panel below the vignette, with the place and date inscription CORRIENTES, 15 de Marzo de 1873 and the overprint MUESTRA centered at the foot of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Serie A EL BANCO DE CORRIENTES Pagará al portador y á la vista VEINTICINCO CENTAVOS Fts en moneda de ley. CORRIENTES, 15 de Marzo de 1873 EL COMISARIO DEL GOBIERNO POR EL BANCO Veinticinco Cts. Fts. 25 MUESTRA |
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Banco de Corrientes was a provincial bank operating during Argentina's era of free banking, when individual provinces issued their own paper currency with little federal oversight. The Corrientes issues of 1873 were poorly backed and the bank faced serious solvency problems throughout its brief operation — a fate common to many provincial issuers of that decade.
The "Fuertes" designation distinguished these notes from the debased "moneda corriente" then circulating elsewhere in Argentina, theoretically anchoring the denomination to a harder standard. In practice, the distinction rarely held.