25 Centavos Fuertes

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.