Catalog
25 Pesos
| Issuer | El Gobierno Nacional, Confederación Argentina |
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| Year | 1857 |
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| Value | 25 Pesos |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset note issued by the Confederación Argentina, dated Paraná, 1° de Octubre de 1857, with the denomination numeral '260' repeated in the upper corners and vertical lettering 'VEINTICINCO PESOS' along both lateral margins. The central text block, set in letterpress, bears the promise to pay twenty-five pesos with two percent monthly interest, signed by El Ministro de Hacienda, El Contador General 2°, and El Tesorero. A simple ruled border frames the entire note, with the denomination 'VEINTICINCO PESOS' repeated in large type at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONFEDERACION ARGENTINA SEGUNDA SERIE PAGADERA DESDE 1.° DE ENERO DE 1858 Paraná, á 1.° de Octubre de 1857. EL GOBIERNO NACIONAL VEINTICINCO PESOS El Ministro de Hacienda El Contador General 2° El Tesorero VEINTICINCO PESOS |
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The Confederación Argentina was the rump state that formed after Buenos Aires seceded in 1852, and Paraná served as its provisional capital. Notes issued under El Gobierno Nacional during this period were printed locally under conditions that reflected the Confederation's chronic fiscal weakness — the printing quality is visibly rougher than contemporaneous Buenos Aires issues, which had access to better-equipped presses and imported engravers.
The PS prefix in the Pick Standard catalogue places this among provincial and quasi-governmental Argentine issues, a classification that understates how seriously this currency functioned within Confederation territory. Buenos Aires and the Confederation ran competing monetary systems until reunification in 1861, and notes like this one circulated in an economy deliberately cut off from the port revenues that made porteño finance more stable.
Surviving examples from Paraná-printed Confederation issues are genuinely uncommon — the political turmoil of reunification did not favor careful preservation.