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36 Centavos Fuertes
| Issuer | Banco Nacional |
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| Year | 1879 |
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| Value | 36 Centavos Fuertes |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress note on cream paper with a central vignette of a gaucho scene with multiple figures, cattle, and a cannon in a rural setting. The denomination '036' appears in large numerals within guilloche ovals at left and right, flanked by an Argentine coat of arms at lower left. The issuer's name 'EL BANCO NACIONAL' is printed in bold across the centre, with the place and date 'Buenos Ayres, 2 de Enero 1879' at upper register, and a red diagonal overprint reading 'Ley de 20 de Octubre' across the face. |
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| Reverse lettering | 036 BANCO NACIONAL Guillermo Kraft Reconquista |
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Banco Nacional was established in 1872 as Argentina's first nationally chartered bank, and the 36-centavo denomination is one of the more eccentric fractional values in the entire 19th-century Argentine provincial and national series. It almost certainly exists to facilitate specific transaction types — likely wage payments or commodity pricing — rather than through any conventional monetary logic.
Guillermo Kraft operated one of Buenos Aires's most active commercial printing houses, handling a wide range of government and commercial work in this period. His output for Banco Nacional is competent but was never engraved to the standard of the European firms then dominating South American security printing.