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4 Pesos Fuertes
| Issuer | Tesorería de la Provincia de Entre-Ríos |
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| Year | 1876 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in purple-rose tones on plain paper, with the issuer's title «LA TESORERÍA DE LA PROVINCIA DE ENTRE-RÍOS» in bold letterpress across the upper portion, flanked by the numeral 4 at each corner within ornate frames. A classical female bust vignette, helmeted in the style of Minerva, occupies the left side, while a vertical vignette of a scale and lamp appears at the right. The central text panel reads «Pagará al portador y a la vista CUATRO PESOS FUERTES en oro, ú otra moneda de curso legal» with the place and date «Concepción del Uruguay, Marzo 1° de 1876», below which appear two manuscript signatures over printed titles «el Ministro de Hacienda» and «el Contador General». |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in a rose-purple guilloche pattern, composed of three large interlocking lathe-work rosettes arranged horizontally. The two outer rosettes each contain the large numeral «4» at their centres, while the central and larger rosette frames a small female portrait vignette. Fine engine-turned geometric latticework fills all surrounding areas, with repeating small numeral «4» counters distributed around the rosette borders. |
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Entre Ríos was one of the most politically turbulent Argentine provinces of the nineteenth century — stronghold of the caudillo Justo José de Urquiza until his assassination in 1870, and still operating with considerable fiscal autonomy well into the decade that followed. Provincial treasury notes like this one circulated alongside national currency rather than replacing it, filling gaps in small-denomination supply that the national system consistently failed to address in the interior.
The PS prefix in the Pick reference places this squarely in the subcategory of state and provincial Argentine issues — a category riddled with printing variations and undocumented emission runs. Survivor populations are thin; most provincial treasury paper from this period was redeemed, destroyed, or simply disintegrated in the humid Mesopotamian climate.