Catalog
5 Pesos
| Issuer | Junta de la Administración de la Casa de Moneda, Buenos Ayres |
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| Year | 1841 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S378 |
| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black on cream paper with a pink-tinted underprint. At centre, a large intaglio vignette of a rhea (ñandú) standing with two smaller birds at its feet occupies the middle ground. To the left, a circular guilloche ornament frames the word CINCO in letterpress. The upper banner carries the patriotic inscription VIVA LA FEDERACION in bold type, beneath which the text reads LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AYRES / Reconoce este CINCO PESOS / Billete por MONEDA CORRte / Por la Junta de la Admón. de la Casa de Moneda, dated 1º Feb.º 1841, with two manuscript signatures at lower left and lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is plain, printed on pink-toned cotton paper with no vignettes or inscriptions, showing only the natural texture and aging of the paper stock. |
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The Junta de la Administración de la Casa de Moneda was Buenos Aires province's monetary authority during a period when Argentine national unification remained decades away — each province effectively ran its own currency. This 5 Pesos note dates to the height of the Rosas administration, issued while Juan Manuel de Rosas held his second governorship under the Federalist banner. Provincial paper money from this period circulated under conditions of chronic depreciation; the Buenos Aires peso had been inflating steadily since the 1820s banking experiments.
Printing in-house at the Casa de Moneda rather than contracting European firms was itself a political choice — a assertion of local institutional capacity. Survivors in any grade are genuinely uncommon.