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5.000 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco y Casa de Moneda de Buenos Ayres |
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| Year | 1864 |
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| Value | 5.000 Pesos |
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| Obverse description | Issued on blue-tinted paper, the note bears the Argentine coat of arms within an ornate frame at upper left, alongside two oval vignettes — one with a horse's head and one with a bull's head — separated by the issuing bank's name in bold letterpress. The large denomination 'CINCO MIL PESOS' is set in prominent display lettering across the centre, with the numeral '5000' in a guilloche-bordered panel at lower left and a circular vignette of a lion's head at lower centre, accompanied by the legend 'POR EL DIRECTORIO' on a ribbon scroll. The date '1º de Enero de 1864' appears at the top, with the qualifier 'Moneda Corriente' to the right of the denomination. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO Y CASA DE MONEDA DE BUENOS AYRES RECONOCEN ESTE BILLETE POR CINCO MIL PESOS Moneda Corriente 5000 POR EL DIRECTORIO 1º de Enero de 1864 |
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The Banco y Casa de Moneda de Buenos Ayres was the province's own institution, entirely separate from any national authority — Buenos Aires had refused to join the Argentine Confederation and operated its own monetary system until the political reunification of 1862. By 1864 that tension was nominally resolved, but provincial banking infrastructure persisted, and this note is a product of that transitional moment when Buenos Aires still managed its own paper currency independently of any federal framework.
At 5,000 pesos, this is a high-denomination instrument, almost certainly a commercial rather than retail note. Survival rate for large Buenos Aires provincial issues of this period is extremely low.