36 Centavos Fuertes

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.