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5 Centavos Fuertes
| Issuer | Tesorería de la Provincia de Entre-Ríos |
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| Year | 1876 |
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| Currency | Peso Fuerte (1826-1885) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries the issuer's title in large letterpress text: LA TESORERÍA DE LA PROVINCIA DE ENTRE-RÍOS, with a small provincial arms vignette to the upper left. The central text panel states the obligation to pay the bearer two hundred of these notes at sight in ten pesos fuertes in gold or other legal currency, with the place and date of issue reading Concep. del Uruguay, Marzo de 1876. The denomination 5 CENTAVOS FISA appears in a panel along the lower margin, flanked by the numeral 5 in each corner, with a figure vignette to the lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | LA TESORERÍA DE LA PROVINCIA DE ENTRE-RÍOS Serie Pagará al portador de DOSCIENTOS de estos billetes Y Á LA VISTA DIEZ PESOS FUERTES en oro, ú otra moneda de curso legal Concep. del Uruguay, Marzo de 1876 5 CENTAVOS FISA |
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Entre Ríos issued its own fractional currency in 1876 under provincial treasury authority — a practice that federal consolidation would soon extinguish. The Tesorería de la Provincia de Entre-Ríos had genuine legal standing to do so; Argentine provinces retained considerable fiscal autonomy in this period, and small-denomination scrip filled a chronic gap in everyday commerce that national coinage could not reliably cover at the provincial level.
Printed locally in Concepción del Uruguay, then the provincial capital, rather than in Buenos Aires. That detail alone makes this a rarity among Argentine provincial issues, most of which went to outside printers.