Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
5 Centavos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de la República Argentina |
|---|---|
| Year | 1884 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Black on brown and yellow underprint. Portrait vignette of Dr. Nicolás Avellaneda at left, with the Argentine Coat of Arms at right. The note carries dense typographic legends across the face, framed by fine guilloche patterning. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | 5 REPUBLICA ARGENTINA 5 BUENOS AIRES. Enero 1º de 1884. La Nacion pagará al portador y a la vista por Medio del Banco Nacional CINCO CENTAVOS Ley de 1 de Octubre de 1883. SR. NICOLAS AVELLANEDA (Translation: Republic of Argentina Buenos Aires, January 1st., 1884. The Nation will pay to bearer at sight through the National Bank Five Cents Law of October 1st., 1883.) |
| Reverse description | Printed in brown. A central oval vignette contains a helmeted female head in profile, representing Athena as an allegory of Liberty, rendered in fine intaglio engraving. Symmetrical guilloche scrollwork and repeated numeral 5 ornaments fill the corners and borders, with the imprint of the American Bank Note Company, New York at the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments | Log in to see details |