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40 Centésimos de Oro
| Issuer | Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires |
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| Year | 1881 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed note with the bank title EL BANCO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES arched across the upper centre, flanked by two circular guilloche medallions each bearing the denomination 0.40. A female portrait vignette occupies the lower left corner and a male portrait vignette the lower right, both executed in fine line engraving. The central panel carries the denomination CUARENTA CENTESIMOS DE PESO DE ORO, with the date 1º DE ENERO DE 1883 at the top and a reference to the Ley Nacional de 8 de Noviembre de 1881 below. |
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| Protection description | The reverse carries a mirror-image intaglio impression of the obverse design, forming a see-through security register when held to the light. |
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The Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires was one of the few provincial institutions that survived the banking turbulence of the 1870s with its emission rights intact. This 40 centésimos denomination sits in an awkward spot historically — issued just as Argentina was moving toward the National Bank framework established in the late 1870s and early 1880s, which would progressively curtail provincial emission authority. The American Bank Note Company held the contract for the province's notes throughout this period, producing work of consistently high technical quality from their New York facilities.
The see-through register — a feature requiring precise front-to-back alignment during printing — was relatively uncommon in South American provincial paper of this date.