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5 Centavos
| Issuer | Provincia de San Juan |
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| Year | 1898 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is laid out in a letterpress and lithographic style with a decorative guilloche border enclosing the main design. At upper centre, the heading "PROVINCIA DE SAN JUAN" appears in bold serif lettering, flanked at each corner by the numeral "5" within ornamental frames. To the left, an oval vignette encloses a hand holding a palm frond, set within an elaborate rococo cartouche. The central area carries the serial number in red, the date "LEY 17 DE ENERO DE 1898", a red "LETRA DE TESORERÍA" banner, and the denomination "CINCO CENTAVOS" in bold, with series letter and place/date of issue below. Two manuscript signatures appear at the foot, attributed to the Contador General and the Ministro de Hacienda. |
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| Obverse lettering | PROVINCIA DE SAN JUAN NÚMERO LEY 17 DE ENERO DE 1898 LETRA DE TESORERÍA LA PROVINCIA DE SAN JUAN PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR CINCO CENTAVOS SAN JUAN 15 DE MAYO DE 1898 SERIE D CONTADOR GENERAL MINISTRO DE HACIENDA LIT. DE LA COMP. SUO AMERICANA DE BILLETES DE BANCO B. AIRES |
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San Juan province issued its own fractional currency in 1898 under the authority granted by Argentina's provincial banking laws — a practice that was already becoming legally precarious by the time these notes entered circulation. The national government had been steadily consolidating monetary authority through the 1890s, and provincial fiduciary emissions of this kind were on borrowed time. San Juan's issues were small-denomination instruments intended to address the chronic shortage of coin in the interior provinces, where metallic currency drained toward Buenos Aires and rarely returned.
The printer, the Buenos Aires arm of the American Bank Note Company, handled a significant share of Argentine provincial work in this period. The Litografía designation distinguishes it from the New York parent operation.