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4 Centavos Fuertes
| Issuer | Tesorería de la Provincia de Entre-Ríos |
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| Year | 1876 |
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| Value | 4 Centavos Fuertes |
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| Obverse description | Single-sided note printed in purple-brown ink on plain paper. A vignette at the left depicts a standing rhea (ñandú) in a naturalistic landscape setting, while a small oval vignette in the upper left corner shows a radiant sun face. The central text panel carries the promise-to-pay legend in letterpress, with the denomination '4' in large numerals at the upper right and '4 CENTAVOS FRES.' repeated in a panel at the lower center. |
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| Obverse lettering | LA TESORERÍA DE LA PROVINCIA DE ENTRE-RÍOS Pagará al portador de DOSCIENTOS CINCUENTA DE ESTOS BILLETES Y A LA VISTA DIEZ PESOS FUERTES en oro, ú otra moneda de curso legal Concepción del Uruguay y Marzo 1° 1876 Por el Ministro de Hacienda 4 CENTAVOS FRES. |
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Entre Ríos was one of several Argentine provinces that resorted to provincial treasury notes during the prolonged credit crises of the 1870s, when the national banking system offered little meaningful support to interior economies. The Tesorería — not a bank, but the provincial treasury itself — issued directly, which was fiscally irregular even by the standards of the period.
The denomination in "fuertes" is the telling detail. By 1876, the distinction between pesos fuertes and pesos moneda corriente had real purchasing significance, and specifying fuerte was a deliberate signal of intended parity with hard currency — a claim provincial scrip rarely managed to sustain in practice.